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Pakistani poet, human-rights activist and feminist, Fahmida Riaz, has passed away at the age of

Pakistan‘s newspapers and websites on Wednesday reported Riaz’s passing away following a prolonged illness in the city of Lahore.

Riaz, a formidable figure of Pakistani literature, authored over a dozen books on poetry and fiction, and ran a publishing company.

She translated the writings of Albanian writer Ismail Kadare and the Sufi poetry of Rumi into Urdu.

Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper called her a “pioneer in feminist literature”.

Heartbreaking news about the death of Fahmida Riaz. What a transformative force she was, in her poetry and her life. One of the brightest of lights in the dark days of Zia-ul-Haq, and beyond.

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— Kamila Shamsie (@kamilashamsie) November 21,

“The themes prevalent in her verse were, until then, were considered taboo for women writers,” said the Dawn.

When ‘Badan Dareeda’, her second collection