| Ismail Ahmedani | |
| Birth Place: | Rajanpur District, now Pakistan |
Ismail Ahmedani (1930–2007) (اسماعیل احمدانی) was a Saraiki novelist, fiction writer, and promoter of the Saraiki language.
He was born 1 January 1930 in a small village "Khoi" in Rajanpur District, British India (now Pakistan).
His father Muhammad Moosa Khan was a writer and teacher. He earned a BA in art from Dera Ghazi Khan after which Ismail Ahmedani started his life as a teacher from Bahawal pur and then Khan pur district Rahim Yar Khan.
He wrote a travelogue named Peet de Pandh (travel of love)[1] and won an award for this writing. He wrote his autobiography named Yadden De Kak Muhal (places of memories). In 2013 he was again awarded the Khwaja Ghulam Farid award for literature in the Saraiki language for this autobiography.[2]