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Chughtai was, and much of her fiction would be made available to anglophone readers in the nineties. (Several other writers in Urdu are world class—that awful term—but the short story is Urdu’s distinctive genre).
- Classical Urdu Poetry
- Modern Urdu Literature
- Bibliography
Persian poetry was for many centuries one of the major arts to be cultivated across the eastern Islamic world. The patronage of the great Mughal emperors encouraged a further development of Persian poetry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India by both immigrant and native-born poets. While their works were formally cast in the long established...
While the transition from the classical to the modern period can be sharply marked by the annexation of Avadh by the British in 1856 and the destruction of much of Delhi that followed their ruthless suppression of the Great Revolt of 1857, there was also naturally much overlap between the two. Under the patronage of other Indian Muslim rulers, some...
Faiz, Faiz Ahmad. Poems by Faiz.Translated by Victor G. Kiernan. London: Allen and Unwin, 1971. Matthews, D. J.; Shackle, C.; and Husain, Shahrukh. UrduLiterature.London: Urdu Markaz, 1985. Matthews, D. J., trans. and ed. Iqbal: A Selection of the UrduVerse.London: School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993. Russell, Ralph, and Islam, Khurshidul....
Jul 1, 2005 · Pakistan’s finest women writers – Jamila Hashmi, Mumtaz Shirin, and Fahmida Riaz, amongst others – introduce us to the compelling cadences of a rich literary culture.
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- Aamer Hussein
Jul 12, 2019 · A round-up of the first four Urdu short stories presented in translation, as part of the eight-part series on Urdu fiction by contemporary Indian writers.
Sep 29, 2017 · The Greatest Urdu Stories Ever Told comprises of twenty-five stories translated by Umar Memon, a writer and translator par excellence. The book opens with an introduction from him, where he traces the evolution of Urdu short stories.
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- Muhammad Umar Memon
May 1, 2008 · This bilingual reader contains twelve short stories by major Arabic writers, in Arabic with English translations. It is obviously designed for people learning Arabic, with language notes after each selection, and it is in order from least to most difficult in the original language.
MAJOR TRENDS IN THE URDU SHORT STORY of his contemporaries, from Sudarshan and Azim Kurevi to Afsar Meeruthi and Ali Abbas Husaini, reflect in their work Premchand's reformist and nationalistic zeal. The thirties provided a turning point in the major trends of Urdu short story writing. Translations from Russian writer»
