Mulla Wahidi (born Syed Muhammad Irtiza) was a Pakistani Urdu writer and journalist. He is famous for his memoirs about Delhi. Khawaj Hasan Nizami gave him the title of Mulla Wahidi. Wahidi was the edi…
Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianis…
Stephen William Hawking was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. Between 1979 …
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Best known for an economical, understated style that significantly influenced later 20th-century writers, he is oft…
After Napoleon III seized power in 1851, French writer Victor Marie Hugo went into exile and in 1870 returned to France; his novels include The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Misérables…
Julio Llamazares was born in Vegamián, a small village in the region of León. At the age of twelve he left the mountain area, attended a boarding school in Madrid and then studied law. Today Llamazare…
Khushwant Singh, (Punjabi: ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਵੰਤ ਸਿੰਘ, Hindi: खुशवंत सिंह) born on 2 February 1915 in Hadali, Undivided India, (now a part of Pakistan), was a prominent Indian novelist and journalist. Singh's week…
Miral al-Tahawy (Arabic: ميرال الطحاوي) is an Egyptian writer of short stories and novels. Until she left for Cairo at the age of 26, al-Tahawy had never left her village (Geziret Saoud in the eastern…
Works, such as the novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947), of Algerian-born French writer and philosopher Albert Camus concern the absurdity of the human condition; he won the Nobel …
SYED MUHAMMAD ASHRAF is an Urdu short story writer. He is the author of two collections of short stories and a novella. Some of his stories have been translated into English and have received various …
Shaukat Siddiqui was a Pakistani writer of fiction who wrote in Urdu. He is best known for his novels Khuda Ki Basti (خدا کی بستی) (translated as:God's Own Land) and Jangloos.
Salma Awan is one of the renowned Pakistani prose writers. In her literary career spanning over four decades, so far she has published seven novels, five short story books, and eleven travelogues. Lat…
Zeenat Hisam is an independent writer-researcher and translator from Pakistan. Over the span of her career, she has written extensively on labour, gender and social development issues. She undertook e…
شفقت حسین نغمی کا تعلّق ضلع اٹک کے گاؤں بہبودی سے ہے۔ کہانیاں سننے کا آغاز اپنی پھوپھی اور پڑھنے کا آغاز اس زمانے میں چَھپنے والی بچوں کی کتابوں اور دیو مالائی داستانوں سے کیا۔ ابنِ صفی سے تعارف ہو…
