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| birth_date = {{birth date|1919|04|07|df=yes}}
| birth_place = India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|08|31|1919|04|07|df=yes}}
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| occupation = Writer
| yearsactive = 1940s–2016
| known for = [[Ghazal]]
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| website = {{Url|http://klzakir.blogspot.ae|Official blog}}
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br>''Fakhr-e-Haryana''
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[[File:The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Shri Kashmiri Lal Zakir, educationist and pioneer in adult literacy schemes, at investiture ceremony in New Delhi on March 29, 2006.jpg|thumb|The President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam presenting Padma Shri to Shri Kashmiri Lal Zakir, educationist and pioneer in adult literacy schemes, at investiture ceremony in New Delhi on March 29, 2006]]
'''Kashmiri Lal Zakir''' (7 April 1919 – 31 August 2016) was an Indian poet, novelist, dramatist and short story writer of [[Urdu literature]].<ref name="Biography of Kashmiri Lal Zakir">{{cite web | url=http://urduyouthforum.org/biography/biography-Kashmiri-Lal-Zakir.html | title=Biography of Kashmiri Lal Zakir | publisher=Urdu Youth Forum | date=2015 | access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref>

His career—which started with his first [[ghazal]] published in ''Adabi Duniya'', a publication from [[Lahore]], in the 1940s—encompasses novels, dramas, short stories and travelogues.<ref name="K. L. Zakir: The pride of Urdu ">{{cite web | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090628/spectrum/book2.htm | title=K. L. Zakir: The pride of Urdu | publisher=Spectrum | date=28 June 2009 | access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref>

Zakir served the Punjab Education Department in then [[British India]] and had been involved with Haryana Urdu Academy for a number of years as its chairman.<ref name="Academy hosts nonagenarian Kashmiri Lal Zakir">{{cite web | url=http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/academy-hosts-nonagenarian-kashmiri-lal-zakir/ | title=Academy hosts nonagenarian Kashmiri Lal Zakir | publisher=Daily Excelsior | date=17 April 2013 | access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref> He has written in Hindi and Urdu,<ref name="WorldCat profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AZa%CC%84kira%2C+Kas%CC%81mi%CC%84ri%CC%84+La%CC%84la.&qt=hot_author | title=WorldCat profile | publisher=WorldCat | date=2015 | access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref><ref name="Hindi Book Centre profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.hindibook.com/index.php?p=sr&Field=author&String=KASHMIRI%20LAL%20ZAKIR | title=Hindi Book Centre profile | publisher=Hindi Book Centre | date=2015 | access-date=13 December 2015}}</ref> including ''Tin cihre ek saval'', a ghazal anthology,<ref name="Tin cihre ek saval">{{cite book | title=Tin cihre ek saval | publisher=Maudarn Pablishing Haus | author=Kashmiri Lal Zakir | year=1981 | pages=40 | asin=B0000E7D2L}}</ref> ''Ab Mujhey Sone Do'', a novel<ref name="Ab Mujhey Sone Do">{{cite book | url=http://www.hindibook.com/index.php?p=sr&Uc=HB-00588 | title=Ab Mujhey Sone Do | publisher=Hindi Book Centre | author=Kashmiri Lal Zakir | year=2008 | pages=111 | isbn=9788181871534}}</ref> and ''Aey Mao Behno Betiyo'', a collection of articles.<ref name="Aey Mao Behno Betiyo">{{cite book | url=http://www.hindibook.com/index.php?p=sr&Uc=HB-01378 | title=Aey Mao Behno Betiyo | publisher=Hindi Book Centre | year=2010 | pages=128 | isbn=9788182236127}}</ref>

Zakir is a recipient of the honour of Fakhr-e-Haryana from the [[Government of Haryana]].<ref name="Biography of Kashmiri Lal Zakir" /> The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Shri]], in 2006, for his contributions to Indian literature.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

Zakir died on 31 August 2016 at the age of 97.<ref>[http://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/kl-zakir-doyen-of-urdu-literature-dead-at-97/story-5e1fvXucPjuuDBNOQeL4UK.html KL Zakir, doyen of Urdu literature, dead at 97]</ref>

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