Aftab Hussain is a poet, translator and literary critic from Pakistan. He studied literature at the Punjab University Lahore and finished his doctorate the University of Vienna. He writes in Urdu and in the Indian national language Hindi. He is author to  four books of poetry. His poems have been translated into numerous languages. After his escape from Pakistan Hussain was a fellow of the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Austrian Federal Chancellery and was mentored by International PEN, the project “Writers in Exile”. His poetry and literary criticisms were published in all major literary magazines of India and Pakistan