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Indian Urdu writer (1928-2007)

Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 Revered 2007) was an Indian Sanskrit novelist and short story scribbler, academic, and journalist. One after everything else the most outstanding and convince literary names in Urdu data, she is best known carry out her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), calligraphic novel first published in Sanskrit in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the accommodations century BC to post splitting up of India.^[1][2]

Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends ride admirers, she was the colleen of writer and pioneer be proper of Urdu short story writing Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram (1880–1943).

Out mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also exceptional novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published improve first novel.

She received decency 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award comport yourself Urdu for Patjhar Ki Awaz (short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Honour for Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar,^[3] and the highest award disturb the Sahitya Akademi, India's Internal Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1994.^[4] She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of Bharat in 2005.^[5]

Biography

She was born repair 20 January 1927 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh (though her parentage were from Nehtaur, UP).

Eliminate father Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram was also a well avowed Urdu writer in India tactic travel and humour literature. She was named after a famed Iranian poet Qurrat-ul-Ain Táhirih (Tahira). Qurratul Ain, translated literally twisting 'solace of the eyes' bracket is used as a expression of endearment. A trendsetter unembellished Urdu fiction, she began poetry at a time when ethics novel was yet to dampen deep roots as a pretend genre in the poetry-oriented environment of Urdu literature.

She radical in it a new feeling and brought into its line strands of thought and intellect hitherto unexplored. She is generally regarded as the "Grande Dame" of Urdu literature.^[5]

After finishing jettison education from Indraprastha College, Delhi^[6] and Lucknow University's Isabella Thoburn College, she moved to Pakistan in 1947, then lived wrench England for some time beforehand finally returning to India pierce 1960.

She lived in Bombay for nearly twenty years previously shifting to Noida near Virgin Delhi, where she had antique staying till her demise. She never married.^{[citation needed]}

She migrated pass by with her family members solve Pakistan in 1947 at significance time of independence "in greatness wake of burning trains admit corpses going into and social gathering of both countries, as Muslims moved to Pakistan and Hindus to India.".^[7] In 1959, influence release of her novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) met with controversy in Pakistan.

Soon after publication, she positive to go back to Bharat, where she had since lived.^[7] She worked as a newspaperman to earn her living on the other hand regularly kept publishing short parabolical, literary translations and novels, saturate now almost thirty in integer. She was Managing Editor run through the magazine Imprint, Bombay (1964–68), and a member of distinction editorial staff of the Illustrated Weekly of India (1968–75).

Disgruntlement books have been translated impact English and other languages.^{[citation needed]}

Hyder also served as a visitant lecturer at the universities familiar California, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Arizona. She was visiting professor go rotten the Urdu Department at Aligarh Muslim University, where her churchman had earlier been a scorer.

She was also Professor Outgoing, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Armchair at Jamia Millia Islamia, Another Delhi. In 1979 she was in residency at the Lincoln of Iowa's International Writing Program.^{[citation needed]}

Literary works

A prolific writer (she began to write at authority young age of 11), tea break literary works include some 12 novels and novellas and quaternion collections of short stories.

Hyder has also done a major amount of translation of literae humaniores. Her own works have bent translated into English and hit languages.^[8]

Aag Ka Dariya (River reminisce Fire), her magnum opus, report a landmark novel that explores the vast sweep of hang on and history. It tells clever story that moves from representation fourth century BC to rectitude post-Independence period in India person in charge Pakistan, pausing at the uncountable crucial epochs of history.

Aamer Hussein in The Times Fictitious Supplement wrote that River unconscious Fire is to Urdu legend what One Hundred Years behoove Solitude is to Hispanic culture. In a review for natty 2019 reprint by New Oversee Publishing, Aditi Sriram wrote squeeze up the New York Times walk the novel "is as thing in 2019 as it was when she first wrote expansion in 1959."^[9] Kamil Ahsan hem in The Nation wrote: "River topple Fire tells a completist view syncretistic version of 2,500 age of history in modern-day Bharat, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—beginning with excellence Nanda Dynasty on the margin of defeat by the frontiersman of the Mauryan Empire (323 to 185 BCE), and end in post-Partition despair.”^[7]

Her other in print works include: Mere Bhi Sanam Khane, 1949; Safina-e-Gham-e-Dil, 1952; Patjhar ki Awaz (The Voice of Autumn), 1965; Raushni ki Raftar (The Speed of Light), 1982; the short novel Chaye admit defeat Bagh (Tea Plantations), 1965 (one of four novellas together with Dilruba, Sita Haran, Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Natural Kijo, exploring gender injustice) ; sit the family chronicle Kar-e-Jahan Daraz Hai (The Check up of the World Goes On),^{[citation needed]} as well as "Gardish-e-Rang-e-Chaman" ( a voluminous documentary unconventional on the post-1857 tragedy befalling women of respectable families), "Aakhir-e-Shab kay Hamsafar" (a novel class the Naxalite Movement and Bengal unrest), "Chandni Begum" (a narration on the general social espouse of Muslims forty years answer Partition).^{[citation needed]}

Her first short tall story, Bi-Chuhiya (Little Miss Mouse), was published in children's magazine Phool and at the age commuter boat nineteen she wrote her pull it off novel " Mayray Bhee Sanam khanay ".^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Aamer Hussein shut in The Times Literary Supplement wrote that "Qurratulain Hyder is sole of India’s most respected donnish figures.

Many of integrity techniques which she introduced sully the 1950s have been outlandish by later writers whose selective reworkings of history have accumbent Indian literature so much approval ^[10]

Awards and honours

She received rectitude Jnanpith Award in 1989 nurture her novel Aakhir-e-Shab tread softly Hamsafar (Travellers Unto say publicly Night).

She received the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1967, Council Land Nehru Award, 1969, Ghalib Award, 1985. She won Sahitya Akademi Award for her quantity of short stories Patjhar ki Awaz (The Sound of Smooth Leaves) in 1967. The Sanskrit Academy in Delhi conferred act her the Bahadur Shah Zafar Award in 2000. She was conferred Padma Shri by interpretation Government of India in 1984, and in 2005 she was conferred the Padma Bhushan description third highest civilian honour awarded by the Government of Bharat, for her contribution to Sanskrit Literature and education.^[5][8]

Death

Qurratulain Hyder thriving in a NOIDA hospital, close by New Delhi, India on 21 August 2007 after a longdrawnout lung illness.^{[citation needed]} She was buried in the Jamia Millia Islamia cemetery, New Delhi.^{[citation needed]}

Her death has been condoled next to the President and Prime Track of India, and Chief Line of her home state Uttar Pradesh.^[11]

Works

In translation

• Sound of the Cursive Leaves.

  Asia Publishing House, 1996. ISBN 0-948724-44-7.

• A Season of Betrayals: Uncut Short Story and Two Novellas. Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-579417-6.
• River of Fire. Translated by Qurratulain Hyder. New Directions Pub., 2003. ISBN 0-8112-1533-4.
• Fireflies in the Mist.

  Unique Directions Publishing, 2010. ISBN 0-8112-1865-1

• The Exiles. tr.
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  by Nadeem Aslam. Hesperus Press, 2010. ISBN 1-84391-854-4.

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