Kamal-e-Fun Award

Kamal-e-Fun Award (Urdu: کمالِ فن ایوارڈ) is a lifetime achievement literary award presented annually by Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL). The award was set up in 1997 and is given to Pakistani scholars for their entire literary career. The winner receives Rs. 10,00,000.^[1][2][3][4]

Kamal-e-Fun Award
Awarded for	Lifetime literary services
Location	Islamabad
Country	Pakistan
Presented by	Pakistan Academy of Letters
First award	1997
Website	pal.gov.pk

Pakistan Academy of Letters

Pakistan Academy of Letters is a national institution with a primary focus on Pakistani literature. Inspired by the Académie Française, the academy was founded in July 1976 by a group of well-known Pakistani authors, poets, essayists, playwrights, and translators.^[3]

Recipients

Year	Awardee	Genre(s)	Ref.
1997	Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi	Poetry and fiction	[5]
1998	Intizar Hussain	Novel	[6]
1999	Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi	Humor	[7]
2000	Ahmad Faraz	Poetry	[8]
2001	Shaukat Siddiqui	Novel and drama	[9]
2002	Munir Niazi	Poetry	[10]
2003	Ada Jafri	Poetry	[11]
2004	Sobho Gianchandani	Revolutionary writing	[12]
2005	Nabi Bakhsh Baloch	Research, Linguistics	[13]
2006	Jamiluddin Aali	Research, poetry and travel writing	[14]
2007	Ajmal Khattak	Poetry	[15]
2008	Abdullah Jan Jamaldini	Authorship	[16]
2009	Lutfullah Khan	Authorship, travel writing	[17]
2010	Bano Qudsia	Novel and fiction	[18]
2011	Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo	Research writing	[19]
2012	Abdullah Hussain	Novel	[20]
2013	Afzal Ahsan Randhawa	Novel	[21]
2014	Fahmida Riaz	Novel, poetry	[22]
2015	Kishwar Naheed	Poetry	[23]
2016	Amar Jaleel	Fiction and column writing	[24]
2017	Jamil Jalibi	Linguistics, Literary criticism	[25]
2018	Muneer Ahmed Badini	Novel	[26]
2019	Asad Muhammad Khan	Novel, poetry	[27]
2020	Mustansar Hussain Tarar / Ashu Lal Faqeer	Novel, poetry, travel writing	[28]
2021	Zafar Iqbal (poet)	Poetry	[29]
2022	Hasan Manzar	Novels, short stories	[30]
2023	Iftikhar Arif	Poetry	[31]

See also

• Pakistan Academy of Letters