V.
G. Kiernan
Born near Manchester, V. G. Kiernan was a pupil of the Manchester
Grammar School, and then of Trinity College, Cambridge. He then
went on to undertake research work in modern diplomatic history,
and won a College Fellowship. He was in India for eight years before
the Partition, involved in radio broadcasting during the war,
and in teaching at the Aitchison College in Lahore during his
time there he got to know Faiz Ahmed Faiz and other Urdu writers,
and began his verse translations of Iqbal, who had died recently
in Lahore, and of Faiz. In later years he was given a Personal
Chair in Modern History at the University of Edinburgh, where
he wrote a number of books and essays on Asian and European history,
and on English Literature. Now retired, he lives in the Scottish
Borders, with his wife, Heather.
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