Matiullah Turab

| birth_date = 21 March 1971

| birth_date = 21 March 1971

| birth_place = Khogyani, Nangrahar, Afghanistan

| birth_place = Khogyani, Nangrahar, Afghanistan

| death_date = 14 July 2025

| death_date = 14 July 2025 (aged 54)

| death_place = Khost, Afghanistan

| death_place = [[Khost]], Afghanistan

| occupation = Poet

| occupation = Poet

| language = Pashto پښتو

| language = Pashto پښتو

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'''Matiullah Turab''' ({{langx|ps|{{nq|مطیع الله تراب}}}}; 21 March 1971<ref name="nytimes" /> – 14 July 2025) was an Afghan poet born in Afghanistan.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/asia/an-afghan-poet-shapes-metal-and-hard-words.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Azam Ahmed |title=An Afghan Poet Shapes Metal and Hard Words|date=18 August 2013 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> His poetry has been popular Among Pashtuns from [[Afghanistan]] and Pakistan.<ref name="nytimes" />

'''Matiullah Turab''' ({{langx|ps|{{nq|مطیع الله تراب}}}}; 21 March 1971<ref name="nytimes" /> – 14 July 2025)<ref>[https://pajhwok.com/2025/07/15/tributes-pour-in-as-patriotic-poet-matiullah-turab-dies/ Tributes pour in as patriotic poet Matiullah Turab dies]</ref> was an Afghan poet born in Afghanistan.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/19/world/asia/an-afghan-poet-shapes-metal-and-hard-words.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |author=Azam Ahmed |title=An Afghan Poet Shapes Metal and Hard Words|date=18 August 2013 |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> His poetry has been popular Among Pashtuns from [[Afghanistan]] and Pakistan.<ref name="nytimes" />

He grew up in [[Nangarhar Province]]<ref name="nytimes" /> and worked as a car body maker.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/urdu/regional-38997893|publisher=bbc.com|author=عمر آفریدی|title=نائن الیون کے بعد افغانستان میں مزاحمتی شاعری|date=17 February 2017|access-date=20 July 2020 |language=ur}}</ref><ref name="welt">{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article119714268/Afghanischer-Dichter-schmiedet-Metall-und-Verse.html |website=welt.de |author=Azam Ahmed |title=Afghanischer Dichter schmiedet Metall und Verse |date=5 September 2013|access-date=20 July 2020 |language=de}}</ref> he flew from the Russian war like many other families to Pakistan and lived in khyber pashtunkhwa, kurram agency for a while and then returned back to his home country Afghanistan in the 2000s.

He grew up in [[Nangarhar Province]]<ref name="nytimes" /> and worked as a car body maker.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/urdu/regional-38997893|publisher=bbc.com|author=عمر آفریدی|title=نائن الیون کے بعد افغانستان میں مزاحمتی شاعری|date=17 February 2017|access-date=20 July 2020 |language=ur}}</ref><ref name="welt">{{cite news|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article119714268/Afghanischer-Dichter-schmiedet-Metall-und-Verse.html |website=welt.de |author=Azam Ahmed |title=Afghanischer Dichter schmiedet Metall und Verse |date=5 September 2013|access-date=20 July 2020 |language=de}}</ref> he flew from the Russian war like many other families to Pakistan and lived in, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, kurram agency for a while and then returned to his home country Afghanistan in the 2000s.

==References==

==References==

[[Category:20th-century Afghan poets]]

[[Category:20th-century Afghan poets]]

[[Category:Pashto-language poets]]

[[Category:Pashto-language poets]]

[[Category:Year of birth missing]]

[[Category:21st-century Afghan poets]]

[[Category:21st-century Afghan poets]]

[[Category:People from Nangarhar Province]]

[[Category:People from Nangarhar Province]]

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