Poetry Translation Centre

Pir Muhammad Karwaan

Pir Muhammad Karwaan is a well known Pashto poet.  Now in his late forties, he was born in Khost in Afghanistan. Karwaan migrated to Peshawar in 1990 and lived there for more than a decade. He returned to Kabul after the end of the Taliban regime and works with the BBC's Afghan Education Project.  Pir Muhammed Karwaan has published three collections of poems as well as two collections of  short stories in Pashto.

Flowers and Man is from Da Shaperai Warghawi  published in Peshawar, 2000.

Poems we've translated

• Flowers and Man