Manwar Rana was born on 26 November 1952 in a Muslim family in Rae Bareli.
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After partition of India, his relatives moved to Pakistan; But the father remained in India.
Manoor spent his childhood in Calcutta and attended school there.
The partition crisis took away the zamindari from his father.
While living in Calcutta, Manwar befriended the Naxalites. His father got angry and threw him out of the house.
After that Manwar stayed in the houses of friends and relatives for 2 years.
After Calcutta, Manoor liked the city of Lucknow. It was here that he met the poet Wali Asi.
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Manoor recited his poems for the first time in a mushaira in Delhi.
He was honored with the Rais Amrohavi Award in 1993 and the Darkhesh Award in 1995.
Awarded Saleem Jafri Award in 1997 and Saraswati Samaj Award in 2004.
In 2005, he received the Ghalib Award, and in 2006, he received the Kabir Samman Award for poetry.
In 2011, West Bengal Urdu Academy gave Maulana Abdul Razzaq Malihabadi Award.
In 2014, he was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu Literature by the Government of India.
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