Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum

Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (1899–1978) was a Pakistani poet, scholar and translator, universally known by his pen name Tabassum. Born in Amritsar on 4 August 1899 to parents of Kashmiri ancestry, he earned a master's degree in Persian from Forman Christian College, Lahore, and spent his whole career at Government College Lahore, rising to head the Department of Persian Studies. He wrote in Urdu, Persian and Punjabi, created the beloved children's character Tot Batot, and translated many poetical works from Persian into Punjabi and Urdu, including Shakespeare's *A Midsummer Night's Dream* into Punjabi. He received Iran's Tamgha-e-Nishan-e-Sipas in 1966 and Pakistan's Sitara-i-Imtiaz, and died in Lahore on 7 February 1978.