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Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the fourth century BC to ...
Urdu. v. t. e. Urdu developed during the 13th century, although the name "Urdu" did not exist at the time for the language. Amir Khusrau, who lived in the thirteenth century, wrote and gave shape to the Rekhta dialect (The Persianized combination of Hindavi), which was the early form of Modern Standard Urdu. He was thus called, the "father of ...
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.
Aab-e-Hayat. Pir-e-Kamil or Peer-e-Kamil ( Urdu: پیر کامل صلی اللہ علیہ و آلہ و سلم; meaning "The Perfect Mentor") is a novel written by Pakistani writer Umera Ahmad. [ 1] It was first published in Urdu in 2004 and later in English in 2011. The book deals with the turning points in intervening lives of two people: a ...
Aag Ka Darya ( Urdu: آگ کا دریا; River of Fire) is a landmark historical novel written by Qurratulain Hyder providing context to the partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nation-states. It has been described as "one of the Indian Subcontinent's best known novels". [ 1] The novel timelines spanned more than two thousand years ...
Lihaaf. " Lihaaf " ("The Quilt") is an Urdu short story written by Ismat Chughtai which was published in the Urdu literary journal Adab-i-Latif in 1942. In the coming decades, it was widely anthologised and faced an obscenity trial. [ 1] It is one of Chughtai's well known works. [ 2]
Shehr-e-Zaat (Urdu: شہرذات ; lit: City of Self) is a novella by Pakistani fiction writer Umera Ahmad published in 2002. A blog at the Express Tribune describes the story as a fictional story with an elements of spiritualism and philosophy.The story depicts the obsession of individuals with worldly life, forgetting their creator—a journey from self to
Dastangoi. Dastangoi (Urdu: داستان گوئی) is a 13th century Urdu oral storytelling art form. [ 1][ 2] [ 3] The Persian style of dastan evolved in 16th century. [ 4] One of the earliest references in print to dastangoi is a 19th-century text containing 46 volumes of the adventures of Amir Hamza titled Dastan e Amir Hamza.