Nasir Abbas Nayyar

Nasir Abbas Nayyar is a Pakistani Urdu language writer, critic, columnist, and essayist. He has written books on poetry, literary theory and post colonial study of Urdu literature. He has produced some important books on structuralism and postmodernism and their influence on Urdu literature. A book on life and poetics of Majid Amjid is another his significant contribution. His most famous work is on Postcolonial Study of Urdu Literature published by Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan titled Mabad Nau Abadiat (Urdu Kay Tanazur Mein ) and Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid. His books on post colonialism proved ground breaking works in Urdu.

He has regularly written on literary issues in The News and Dawn.

Personal life Nayyar was born on 25 April 1965 in a village of Jhang. He did his matriculation from Govt. High School Shorkot in 1981. He did his Master in Urdu from Government College University (Faisalabad) in 1990. He got his Ph.D. degree from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship by (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) to pursue a research on Urdu courses of colonial period at Heidelberg University in 2011.

Career He is serving as professor at Institute of Urdu Language & Literature, Punjab University, Lahore in Urdu Literature . He is an honorary Editor of Bunyad - A Journal of Urdu Studies Editorial Team since 2020.

He served as Director General of Urdu Science Board from December, 2017 till December, 2020.

Awards His book Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid won the best Urdu Book prize in at KLF 2017 and Uss Ko Ikk Shakhs Samajhna Tou Munasib Hi Nahin won the UBL Literary Award for Best Urdu Non-Fiction book in 2019. In 2025, he received the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz from the President of Pakistan.