The Kamāl-i Fann Award

The Kamāl-i Fann Award is Pakistan’s highest national award in the field of literature, which is awarded to a towering living literary figure for his/her lifetime services. The award is accompanied by a sum of one million rupees. This award was launched in 1997. It is decided by an independent jury consisting of prominent writers of all major Pakistani languages. The names of the writers and poets of different Pakistani languages who have been presented with this award are as follows:

# Name Year
1Mr. Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi1997
2Mr. Intizar Hussain1998
3Mr. Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi1999
4Mr. Ahmed Faraz2000
5Mr. Shaukat Siddiqui2001
6Mr. Munir Niazi2002
7Ms. Ada Jafri2003
8Mr. Sobho Gian Chandani2004
9Dr. Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch2005
10Mr. Jameeluddin Ali2006
11Mr. Muhammad Ajmal Khattak2007
12Mr. Abdullah Jan Jamaldini2008
13Mr. Muhammad Lutfullah Khan2009
14Ms. Bano Qudsia2010
15Mr. Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo2011
16Mr. Abdullah Hussain2012
17Mr. Afzal Ahsan Randhawa2013
18Ms. Fahmida Riaz2014
19Ms. Kishwar Naheed2015
20Mr. Amar Jalil2016
21Dr. Jameel Jalibi2017
22Mr. Munir Ahmad Badini2018
23Mr. Asad Muhammad Khan2019
24Mr. Mustansar Hussain Tarar and Dr. Ashu Lal Faqir (both writers regretted the receipt of award)2020
25Mr. Zafar Iqbal2021
26Mr. Hassan Manzar2022