THE SILENCE OF THE HYENA

by Syed Muhammad Ashraf

Author, critic, and translator M. ASADUDDIN writes on syncretic cultural traditions in India, literature, and language politics. He is currently Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Languages, and former director, Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilizations. He was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2008-2009, and a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2000. He has lectured at the universities of Delhi, Kolkata, Dhaka, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, East Anglia, Chicago, Rutgers, New York, St. Louis, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Among his twenty books are Image and Stories of Muslim Lives in India (with Mushirul Hasan), Filming Tagore, Premchand and Ray, Premchand in World Translation, Reception and Cinematic Representations, and The Complete Short Stories. He has received the Katha Award, Dr A. K. Ramanujan Award, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Crossword Book Award.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published September 1, 2020

About the author

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 awards. One of the most prominent fiction writers, known for his stories drawing upon the cultural heritage of the past. Also the first one to make animals and non-living things the central metaphors in his stories.