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Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
Published in 1962, it is hailed as a masterpiece of Urdu literature. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It won Mastoor the 1963 Adamjee Literary Award for Urdu prose and has been translated into 13 languages. [ 4 ] English translations of the novel by Neelam Hussain titled The Inner Courtyard and by Daisy Rockwell as The Women's Courtyard were published in 2001 and ...
The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5] These books primarily consist of Urdu , Hindi and Persian literature and encompass a wide range of genres, including biographies of poets, Urdu poetry , fiction, and nonfiction. [ 6 ]
Urdu-language non-fiction literature (2 C, 5 P) Novels by Shaukat Siddiqui (2 P) P. Urdu-language poetry (4 C, 35 P) R. ... List of Urdu book publishing companies;
Pages in category "Urdu-language books" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aab-e hayat (Azad)
5 languages. العربية ... Pages in category "Urdu-language novels" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect ...
Umrao Jaan Ada (Urdu: اُمراؤ جان ادا) is an Urdu novel by Mirza Hadi Ruswa (1857–1931), first published in 1899. [1] It is considered the first Urdu novel by many [2] and tells the story of a tawaif and poet by the same name from 19th century Lucknow, as recounted by her to the author.
Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker.Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.