प्रतिनिधि कहानियाँ: कुर्रतुल ऐन हैदर

by Qurratulain Hyder

New book

179 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

About the author

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 her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959 from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of India. Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and a pioneer of Urdu short story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880–1943). Her mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also a novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel.

She received the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for Patjhar Ki Awaz (Short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Award for Akhir-e-Shab Ke Humsafar, and the highest award of the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1994. She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 2005.

Reviews

[Arshdeep · Rating 5 out of 5]

Imagination that straddles across swaths of Time

[Ankita Chauhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

व्यापक सोच की पृष्ठभूमि पर लिखी गयी कहानियाँ हैं, हर कहानी का आखिर भाग आपको चौंकाता है, उर्दू के लफ्ज़ हो सकता है पढ़ते वक्त थोड़ी रुकावट डालते हैं, लेकिन फुटनोट्स पर उनके दिए अर्थ के साथ पढ़ना एक नयी भाषा की जमीन पर कदम रखने जैसा है , सबसे पसंदिदा शब्द सीखा, तालीमयाफ़्ता।