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Ismail Ahmedani (1930–2007) (اسماعیل احمدانی) was a Saraiki-language Pakistani novelist and fiction writer, and promoter of the Saraiki language.
He was born on 1 January 1930 in a small village "Khoi" in Rajanpur District, British India (now Pakistan).[ citation needed ]
His father Muhammad Moosa Khan was a writer and teacher. He earned a BA in arts from Dera Ghazi Khan and then started his life as a teacher from Bahawalpur and later in Khanpur, in district Rahim Yar Khan.[ citation needed ]
He wrote a travelogue named Peet de Pandh (travel of love) [1] and won an award for this writing. He wrote his autobiography named Yadden De Kak Muhal (places of memories). In 2013 he was again awarded the Khwaja Ghulam Farid award for literature in the Saraiki language for this autobiography. [2]
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