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Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential 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 ...
Qurratulain Hyder, a renowned writer in the subcontinent, left behind a vast collection of books and personal items, preserved in Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia University after her death in 2007.
The most prominent fiction writer of Urdu, celebrated for her classic 'Aag ka Dariya' and autobiographical narrative 'Kaar-e-Jahaan Daraaz Hai'. A Padma Shri and Jnanpith awardee of great distinction. ALL.
May 18, 2024 · Qurratulain Hyder. Common to several of the short stories, pen-portraits, and memoir pieces collected in At Home in India, is the delightful figure of the modern Indian woman. Inhabiting small...
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Jul 22, 2019 · Qurratulain Hyder’s newly reissued novel, River of Fire, looks at 2500 years of history to reveal how the subcontinent’s nationalist myths formed and why the region fractured.
2 days ago · By Saudamini Jain. Jul 26, 2024 08:04 PM IST. A new anthology of Hyder’s work includes profiles of some eminent Urdu women writers, the actress Nargis, short stories, and extracts from her...
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Aag Ka Darya (Urdu: آگ کا دریا; River of Fire) is a landmark historical novel written by Qurratulain Hyder providing context to the partition of the Indian subcontinent into two nation-states.
