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Khadija Mastoor (Urdu: خدیجہ مستور, romanized: K͟hadījah Mastūr; 11 December 1927 – 25 July 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language short story writer and novelist. [1] Her novel Aangan is widely considered a literary masterpiece in Urdu literature, which has also been adapted as a television drama series .
Razia had been contributing short stories to journals like Phool, Tehzib-e-Nisvaan and Ismat since her childhood. [7] In Lucknow, Razia began to teach, write and translate in order to earn a living. She translated about 40 books into Urdu. [8] Her translation of Bertold Brecht's Life of Galileo to Urdu was called powerful. [9]
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 2018 ...
Hajra Masroor (Urdu: ہاجرہ مسرور; Hājrah Masrūr; 17 January 1930 – 15 September 2012) [1] was a Pakistani writer who established herself with her short fiction stories, known as afsana in Urdu literature. [2] [3] Her elder sister, Khadija Mastoor, was also an accomplished short-story writer and novelist. [4] [5]
Khalida Hussain (Urdu: خالدہ حسین; 18 July 1937 – 11 January 2019) was a Pakistani fiction writer and novelist of Urdu. [1] [2] [3] She introduced a new trend in Urdu fiction writing, she mostly wrote stories on real life and was regarded as the best fiction writer in Pakistan after Intizar Hussain. [4]
Female entrepreneurs are women who organize and manage an enterprise, particularly a business. [1] Female entrepreneurship has steadily increased in the United States during the 20th and 21st century, with number of female owned businesses increasing at a rate of 5% since 1997.
Kishwar Naheed has also written eight books for children and won the prestigious UNESCO award for children's literature. [5] Her love for children is as much as her concern for women. She expresses this concern in her poem, Asin Burian We Loko, which is a touching focus on the plight of women in the present male-dominated society. Naheed has ...
Ada Jafarey was part of a traditionally conservative society where women were not allowed to think and express independently. [2] But she was bold enough to express herself. [6] Despite having traditionality ingrained in her personality, she took part in modern art. [1] As early as 1950, she was recognized as the First Lady of Urdu Poetry.