Asad Zaidi (born 31 August 1954)[1] is an Indian poet, editor, translator, publisher, and literary critic.
[10] Zaidi's first collection of poems Behne aur Anya Kavitaein (1980) established him as 'a distinctive voice in contemporary Hindi poetry' early on.
[12][13][14] In 1993, Chaman Lal counted Zaidi among the third of the four generations of poets who were at that time actively composing in Hindi.
"[16] In 2018, Aftab Hussain wrote of Zaidi in The News as 'a powerful exception' to the general absence of Muslims in the Hindi literature that came after the Partition of India in 1947.
He has translated many works of European, Latin American, and Chinese poets from English into Hindi and Urdu.