Altaf Fatima (born 1927 in Lucknow, British India) was an Urdu novelist, short-story writer, and teacher (specializing in Muhammad Iqbal). Her novel Dastak Na Do ("Do not knock") is regarded as one of…
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, my…
Philip Kindred Dick was a prolific American science fiction author whose work has had a lasting impact on literature, cinema, and popular culture. Known for his imaginative narratives and profound phi…
Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as "The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals…
Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States. She was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote b…
The Sudanese writer al-Tayyib Salih (Arabic: الطيب صالح)has been described as the "genius of the modern Arabic novel." He has lived abroad for most of his life, yet his fiction is firmly rooted in the…
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (Cyrillic: Иван Сергеевич Тургенев) was a novelist, poet, and dramatist, and now ranks as one of the towering figures of Russian literature. His major works include the short…
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (Urdu: شمس الرحمٰن فاروقی) (born January 15, 1935) is an Indian poet and one of the leading Urdu critics and theorists. He is regarded as the T.S. Eliot of Urdu criticism and ha…
Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received m…
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 …
Daphne du Maurier was born on 13 May 1907 at 24 Cumberland Terrace, Regent's Park, London, the middle of three daughters of prominent actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and actress Muriel, née Beaumo…
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 …
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which ar…
ولد عبد الرحمن منيف في عام 1933 في عمان، لأب من نجد وأم عراقية. قضى المراحل الاولى مع العائلة المتنقلة بين دمشق وعمان وبعض المدن السعودية. أنهى دراسته الثانوية في العاصمة الاردنية مع بدء نشاطه السياسي و…
Mumtaz Mufti (Sitara-e-Imtiaz) is a Pakistani short story writer. He started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before partition. In the beginning he was considered among his…
Mirza Athar Baig is a Pakistani novelist, playwright and short story writer. He is associated with the Philosophy Department at the Government College University in Lahore. His fiction works include t…
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.
Qurratulain Hyder was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for he…
Rahman Abbas (born 30 January 1972) is an Indian fiction writer. He has twice won State Academy Awards for his two novels, first on 'Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God (2011) and again for Rohzin in 2…
انیس اشفاق کا تعلق تہذیبی شہر لکھنؤ سے ہے۔ انھوں نے اپنی تعلیم اوّل تا آخر اسی شہر سے حاصل کی اور 1983ء میں وہ یہیں کی دانش گاہ لکھنؤ یونیورسٹی کے شعبۂ اُردو میں لیکچرر کے مستقل عہدے پر فائز ہوئے۔…
