Maki Kureishi

{{Short description|Pakistani poet}}

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Maki Kureishi (1927 Calcutta – Karachi 1995) was a Pakistani poet.[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4995 "Maki Kureishi"], The Literary Encyclopedia.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzMuRMNFDgYC&q=Maki+Kureishi&pg=PA258| title=Interpreting Homes in South Asian Literature |author=Malashri Lal |author-link=Malashri Lal |author2=Sukrita Paul Kumar |author2-link=Sukrita Paul Kumar | publisher= Pearson Education India | year=2007| isbn= 978-81-317-0637-4 }}

She taught at the University of Karachi for 30 years.[http://www.drunkenboat.com/db10/01asi/kureishi.html Author's note/]

She wrote in English.{{cite web | url=http://neoenglishsystem.blogspot.com/2010/08/pakistani-literature-in-english.html | title=Pakistani Literature in English | date=28 August 2010 }}{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/09/07/stories/2008090750040100.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911060845/http://www.hindu.com/lr/2008/09/07/stories/2008090750040100.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=11 September 2008 | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=A voice of their own | date=7 September 2008}}{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H_uwA78YZDoC&q=Maki+Kureishi&pg=PA112| title=English postcoloniality: literatures from around the world |editor=Radhika Mohanram |editor2=Gita Rajan| publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group| year= 1996| isbn= 978-0-313-28854-8 }}

Her nephew is Hanif Kureshi.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=elm3N0mPP6AC&q=Maki+Kureishi&pg=PA27| title=Hanif Kureishi| author=B. J. Moore-Gilbert| publisher= Manchester University Press| year= 2001| isbn=978-0-7190-5535-5 }}