Maki Kureishi

Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born 1927
Died 1995
Activity 1950-1995

Places

Born in India
Active in Pakistan

Activities

Primary

Poet
Teacher/ Professor

Resources

Kureishi's Works

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Maki Kureishi was born in Calcutta in 1927 into a Parsee family. Her psychiatrist father, Lt. Colonel Jal Dhunjibhoy, served in that elite, colonial corps, the Indian Medical Service. Her mother, Shireen Vacha, had grown up in Germany, where her father had been Professor of Languages at Berlin University and translated the Parsee (Zoroastrian) holy script

Avesta

into German and English. Books were a part of family life and both Kureishi and her younger sister, later German filmmaker Roshan Beutener-Dhunjibhoy, were prodigious readers.

Kureishi spent her early childhood in Ranchi and came to Karachi in her early teens. At Partition in 1947 the family stayed on. This post-Partition city, the capital of Pakistan until the 1960s, provided the backdrop to Kureishi's poetry, whether she wrote

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Citation: Shamsie, Muneeza. "Maki Kureishi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 June 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4995, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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