Awaz Sayeed

Awaz Bin Sayeed, also spelt Evaz Saeed (3 March 1934 – 2 July 1995) (Urdu: عوض سعید) (pen name: Chaand, چاند), was a modern short-story writer, poet, playwright, Khaka-naveez and humorist from Hyderabad, India.

Awaz Sayeed was a Hadhrami Arab by descent[1] belonging to a family of Hyderabad Deccan, with roots in Mukallah in Hadhramaut (present-day Yemen).

His father served as State Financier under His Highness Sultan Omar bin Awadh Al Qu'aiti (Nawab Sir Jan-Baz Jung Bahadur K.C.I.E.)

The first book Despairing voices: A Collection of Modern Urdu Short Stories edited and translated by Syed Sarwar (Satyam Publishing House, 2011) includes his four Urdu short stories Raat Wala Ajnabi ('The Night's Stranger'), Udaas Nasal Ka Aakhri Aadmi ('Last Man of the Melancholic Race'), Andha Kunwan ('Dry Well') and Coma.

thesis by Aliya Maqsood is titled 'Awaz Sayeed Ba Haisiyat Khaka Nigar' (عوض سید – بحیثیت خا کہ نگار).