Kamal-e-Fun Award


Kamal-e-Fun Award is a lifetime achievement literary award presented annually by Pakistan Academy of Letters. The award was set up in 1997 and is given to Pakistani scholars for their entire literary career. The winner receives Rs. 10,00,000.

Pakistan Academy of Letters

Pakistan Academy of Letters is a national institution with a primary focus on Pakistani literature. Inspired by the Académie Française, the academy was founded in July 1976 by a group of well-known Pakistani authors, poets, essayists, playwrights, and translators.

Recipients

YearAwardeeGenreRef.
1997Ahmad Nadeem QasmiPoetry and fiction
1998Intizar HussainNovel
1999Mushtaq [Ahmad Yusufi]Humor
2000Ahmad FarazPoetry
2001Shaukat SiddiquiNovel and drama
2002Munir NiaziPoetry
2003Ada JafriPoetry
2004Sobho GianchandaniRevolutionary writing
2005Nabi Bakhsh BalochResearch, Linguistics
2006Jamiluddin AaliResearch, poetry and travel writing
2007Ajmal KhattakPoetry
2008Abdullah Jan JamaldiniAuthorship
2009Lutfullah KhanAuthorship, travel writing
2010Bano QudsiaNovel and fiction
2011Muhammad Ibrahim JoyoResearch writing
2012Abdullah HussainNovel
2013Afzal Ahsan RandhawaNovel
2014Fahmida RiazNovel, poetry
2015Kishwar NaheedPoetry
2016Amar JaleelFiction and column writing
2017Jamil JalibiLinguistics, Literary criticism
2018Muneer Ahmed BadiniNovel
2019Asad Muhammad KhanNovel, poetry
2020Mustansar [Hussain Tarar] / Ashu [Lal Faqeer]Novel, poetry, travel writing
2021Zafar [Iqbal (poet)]Poetry
2022Hasan ManzarNovels, short stories
2023Iftikhar ArifPoetry