All You Need To Know About Imtiaz Dharker, Poet & Ex-Wife Of Late Journalist Anil Dharker

Anil Dharker wife: Prominent journalist and writer Anil Dharker passed away Friday due to a cardiac illness. He was in his mid-70s. His passing is being mourned as an irreplaceable loss to the media-literary world, with condolences pouring in on social media from his contemporaries and industry colleagues.

Dharker's legacy as a writing giant is compounded in part by his first wife, Imtiaz Dharker, sharing that status. Though the couple parted ways after a period of union, their contribution to the intellectual milieu and hopes for a free-thinking society has been massive in combination.

Anil Dharker Wife: 5 Things To Know About Poet Imtiaz Dharker

1. Imtiaz Dharker hails from Lahore, Pakistan and grew up in the United Kingdom. She is a distinguished poet, author and filmmaker, her writing craft considered among the most relevant and significant in British literary circles.

2. She has been bestowed with many prestigious honours, including but not limited to the Cholmondeley Award and the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. In 2011, she was elected as a Royal Society of Literature Fellow and in 2019, was placed to become a British Poet Laureate, the latter a position she declined citing privacy over the pressures of a public role.

3. Women are often the focus of her working themes, with a recurring commentary on the intersectional identities of religion, culture, geography and politics of women featuring in her works. She has, over the years, laid claim to a niche in writing about women in Islam, paying profound attention to the system of 'purdah' as a tool of suppression.

"The image of purdah for me was on the dangerous edge of being almost seductive... But of course it is also one of the instruments of power used to bring women to heel in the name of religion": Imtiaz Dharker

4. Dharker's most famous works include Purdah, I Speak for the Devil, and The Terrorist at my Table. Aside from writing, her accomplishments span the territories of filmmaking and art, for which she has been recognised through awards and exhibitions.

5. Her first marriage was to Anil Dharker, with whom she has a daughter Ayesha, a British actress and theatre artist. Dharker's second marriage was to Simon Powell, a literary event director. It ended with her husband's death from cancer in 2009.