Anwar Sajjad, more commonly known as Enver Sajjad (27 May 1935 – 6 June 2019) was a Pakistani playwright and fiction writer. Because he was a novelist, playwright, actor, director, producer, voice-over artist, columnist, painter, dancer and physician,[1] he has been described as a polymath.[2][3]
Early life and career
He was born in 1935 in Lahore. Sajjad completed his higher studies in medicine from King Edward Medical College before heading out to the University of Liverpool for a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.[4] He was a medical doctor by profession.[5]
He began to write in the 1950s, when he was still a teenager.[6]
Anwar Sajjad was also a television actor who starred in a number of PTV productions and was also nominated for a PTV award for his performance in drama serial Saba aur Samandar. He was also an active member of the Lahore circle of literary figures and artists and had also chaired the Pakistan Arts Council, Lahore in the past.[4]
Anwar Sajjad had also worked for, before his death, the National Academy of Performing Arts. He quit this job due to his illness and other personal reasons.[4]
In the early days of television, after its introduction in Pakistan in 1964, it was the Pakistani television pioneer Aslam Azhar who persuaded writers like Ashfaq Ahmed, Bano Qudsia and Anwar Sajjad to write for television.[7]
