Parveen Shakir, Pakistani Urdu poet
Parveen Shakir (Urdu: پروین شاکر; 24 November 1952 – 26 December 1994) was a Pakistani poet, teacher and a civil servant of the government of Pakistan. She is best known for her poems, which brought a distinctive feminine voice to Urdu literature, and for her consistent use of the rare grammatical feminine gender for the word "lover".Since her death, the "Parveen Shakir Urdu Literature Festival" has been held every year in Islamabad in her memoriam.