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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).
Progressive Writers' Movement. Manto Ke Afsanay (lit. 'Stories of Manto') is a collection of short stories in Urdu by Saadat Hasan Manto . It was first published in 1940. Rekhta has the largest collection of 233 stories written by Saadat Hasan Manto. [1]
Not required. Launched. 14 August 2000. Current status. Online. UrduPoint is an Urdu-language web portal in Pakistan, launched on 14 August 2000. As of April 2016, it ranked as the 6th most visited website in Pakistan and held a global rank of 1045 (April 2016). [1]
List of Urdu Short Story Writers Author Life Location Notable Short Stories Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram: 1880-1943 Lucknow: Izdawaj-e-Mohabbat: Saadat Hasan Manto: 1912-1955 Lahore: Thanda Gosht, Toba Tek Singh: Premchand: 1880-1936 Benares: Shatranj ki Bazi, Idgah, Kafan: Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi: 1916-2006 Lahore Kapaas Ka Phool, Alhamdulillah ...
This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Intizar Hussain was born on 21 December 1925 in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, British India. [5] He received a degree in Urdu literature in Meerut. [7] As someone born in the Indian subcontinent who later migrated to Pakistan during 1947 Partition, a perennial theme in Hussain's works deals with the nostalgia linked with his life in pre-partition era. [8]
Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by the new state.
The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 21 September 2024, it has 211,546 articles, 184,727 registered users and 10,881 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...