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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).
Saadat Hassan Manto was born in Paproudi village of Samrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab, India in a Muslim family of barristers on 11 May 1912. [12] He belonged to a Kashmiri trading family that had settled in Amritsar in the early nineteenth century and taken up the legal profession. His father, Khwaja Ghulam Hasan, was a session ...
Mirza Adeeb :مرزا ادیب, PP, BA (Hon), ( Urdu: مرزا ادیب — Mirzā Adīb; 4 April 1914 – 31 July 1999 [2] [1] [3] [4] ), also known as Meerza Adeeb, ( میرزا ادیب — Mīrzā Adīb ), [4] was a Pakistani dramatist, playwright and short story writer who wrote in Urdu and Punjabi language. [5] His plays and short stories ...
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship (National Academy of Letters) of India awarded in 2007. Anjuman Farogh-i-Adab Doha's award [1] Intizar Hussain or Intezar Hussain ( Urdu: انتظار حسین; 21 December 1925 – 2 February 2016) was a Pakistani writer of Urdu novels, short stories, poetry and nonfiction. He is widely recognised as a leading ...
Khadija Mastoor (Urdu: خدیجہ مستور, romanized: K͟hadījah Mastūr; 11 December 1927 – 25 July 1982) was a Pakistani short story writer and novelist who worked in Urdu literature. Her novel Aangan is widely considered a literary masterpiece in Urdu literature, which has also been made into a television drama .
The author of more than 50 books on poetry, biographies, plays and short stories in both Sindhi and Urdu languages. His translations of Shah Jo Risalo, which was written by the 18th-century Sufi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, from Sindhi to Urdu language established him as an authority in his domain.
Ashfaq Ahmed ( Urdu: اشفاق احمد خان; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster. [1] [2] His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for television and radio of Pakistan. He received the President's Pride of Performance and Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) awards for ...
Amjad is the writer of many drama series for Pakistan Television Corporation including Waris. He has written many columns, translation, criticism and essays while his main focus remained writing nazms, a type of Urdu poetry. Among his most notable dramas are Dehleez, Samandar, Raat, Waqt and Apnay Log.