Shaukat Siddiqui
Shaukat Siddiqui was a Pakistani writer of fiction who wrote in Urdu. He is best known for his novels Khuda Ki Basti (خدا کی بستی) (translated as:God's Own Land) and Jangloos.
Siddiqui was born on 20 March 1923 in a literary family of Lucknow, India. He gained his early education in his home town and earned a B.A. in 1944 and a M.A. (Political Science) in 1944. After the partition of India, he migrated to Pakistan in 1950 and stayed in Lahore but soon permanently settled in Karachi.
He was an active member of Pakistan Writers' Guild and a partisan of progressive writers association. He worked at the news-desks of the Times of Karachi, Pakistan Standard and the Morning News. He finally rose to be the editor of the Daily Anajam, the Weekly Al-F
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Marghoob Ali Rahat, popularly known as MA Rahat is a novelist from Pakistan who wrote in total around 1500 suspense, crime stories and novels in Urdu.
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Ali Akbar Natiq began working as a mason, specializing in domes and minarets, to contribute to the family income while he read widely in Urdu and Arabic. Acclaimed as one of the brightest stars in Pakistan's literary firmament, Natiq has published two volumes of poetry and one collection of short stories.
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अली अकबर नातिक़ का जन्म 1976 में ओकारा, पाकिस्तान में हुआ था। मैट्रिक करने के बाद उन्होंने अपने परिवार के गुज़ारे के लिए एक राजमिस्त्री के रूप में काम करना शुरू किया और गुंबदों और मीनारों के माहिर मिस्त्री बन गए। उन्होंने उर्दू और अरबी साहित्य खूब पढ़ा और प्राइवेट से बीए की डिग्री हासिल की। उन्होंने उर्दू पत्रिकाओं में अपनी शुरुआती कहानियों और कविताओं के प्रकाशन के साथ ही साहित्य की दुनिया में अपना खास मुकाम बना लिया। उन्हें उर्दू में लिखने -
Khadija Mastoor
Khadija Mastoor is an Urdu writer from Pakistan famous for her novel Aangan.
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Born in British India and later migrated to Pakistan with her sister Hajra Masroor, who is also a skillful writer herself, Khadija wrote 7 books on social and moral values. Her Books are:
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Elif Shafak
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. Shafak holds a PhD in political science and she has taught at various universities in Turkey, the US and the UK, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow. She is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receivin
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Nemrah Ahmed
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Umera Ahmed
Umera Ahmed is one of the most widely-read and popular Urdu fiction novelist and screenplay writer of this era.
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She completed her Masters in English Literature from Murray College, Sialkot. Later she became an English language lecturer for the students of O and A levels at Army Public College, Sialkot. However she left the job a few years back in order to devote her full attention to writing.
She began her writing career in 1998 at a quite young age. Her initial stories were published in monthly urdu digests and later came out in the form of books. She has written about 16 books , comprising of complete novels and compilations of short stories. However it was her novel "Peer-e-Kaamil (S.A.W.W)" which became her identity. -
Krishan Chander
हिंदी : कृश्न चन्दर
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Urdu Profile:کرشن چندر
Krishan Chander was an Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. He also worked on English.
He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu, and later, after partition of the country, took to writing in Hindi as well.
He also wrote screen-plays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meagre income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels (including the classic : Ek Gadhe Ki Sarguzasht, trans. Autobiography of a Donkey) have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English.
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Hashim Nadeem
Hashim Nadeem Khan is a Well known & Skillful writer who became hugely popular in a short span of time. He belongs to Balochistan and a great drama writer and a novel writer. He has complete grip over expressing human feeling of love, desire, patience and so on. His work is widely admired by critics as well as the readers.
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his novels are Bachpan ka December, Khuda aur mohabbat, Abdullah & Muqaddas are well known and most popular novels in urdu readers.
He also produced 27 Telefilms & 11 Drama Serial as 1st private producer among four of them have won different awards, in which he was also writer and director. Basically associated with civil service but due to his unique style of narration; now widely recognised as a successful Novelist. He ha -
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
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Bano Qudsia
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Raja Anwar
Raja Anwar is a Pakistani journalist, writer, and former PPP political activist. He belongs to the Bhakral Rajput clan. He was born in Kallar Syedan Tehsil.
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Anwar was appointed as an adviser on Students and Labour in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government (1974–1977). He escaped to Afghanistan after Bhutto was toppled by a right-wing military coup led by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
In Kabul, Anwar joined Bhutto's elder son, Murtaza Bhutto, and formed Al-Zulfiqar, a leftist insurgency committed to toppling the Zia dictatorship. Raja Anwar had a falling with Murtaza over the latter's controversial terror tactics in 1980 and wanted to return to Pakistan and help Murtaza's sister, Benazir Bhutto's political struggle against Zia. Anwar was imprisoned in a Kabu -
Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (1910 in New Delhi – 14 January 1994 in Karachi) (Urdu: احمد علی ) was a Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar. His writings include Twilight in Delhi (1940), his first novel.
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Born in Delhi, British India, Ahmed Ali was educated at Aligarh and Lucknow universities, graduating with first-class and first in the order of merit in both B.A. (Honours), 1930 and M.A. English, 1931. He taught at leading Indian universities including Lucknow and Allahabad from 1932–46 and joined the Bengal Senior Educational Service as professor and head of the English Department at Presidency College, Calcutta (1944–47). Ali was the BBC's Representative and Director in India during 1942–45. During the Partition of India, he w -
Paulo Coelho
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Tehmina Durrani
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Ahmed Ali
Ahmed Ali (1910 in New Delhi – 14 January 1994 in Karachi) (Urdu: احمد علی ) was a Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, translator, diplomat and scholar. His writings include Twilight in Delhi (1940), his first novel.
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Born in Delhi, British India, Ahmed Ali was educated at Aligarh and Lucknow universities, graduating with first-class and first in the order of merit in both B.A. (Honours), 1930 and M.A. English, 1931. He taught at leading Indian universities including Lucknow and Allahabad from 1932–46 and joined the Bengal Senior Educational Service as professor and head of the English Department at Presidency College, Calcutta (1944–47). Ali was the BBC's Representative and Director in India during 1942–45. During the Partition of India, he w -
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (Urdu: شمس الرحمٰن فاروقی) (born January 15, 1935) is an Indian poet and one of the leading Urdu critics and theorists. He is regarded as the T.S. Eliot of Urdu criticism and has formulated fresh models of literary appreciation. He absorbed western principles of literary criticism and subsequently applied them to Urdu literature, but only after adapting them to address literary aesthetics native to Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. He was born on 15 January 1935 in India. He received his Master of Arts (MA) degree in English from Allahabad University in 1955.
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Bano Qudsia
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Khadija Mastoor
Khadija Mastoor is an Urdu writer from Pakistan famous for her novel Aangan.
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3. Chand Roz Aur (1951)
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Patras Bukhari
Syed Ahmed Shah[1] (Urdu: سید احمد شاہ ) (commonly known as Patras Bokhari - پطرس بخاری) HI, (1 October 1898, Peshawar – 5 December 1958, New York) was an Urdu humourist, educator, essayist, broadcaster and diplomat from Pakistan. He is best known for his humorous writings in Urdu literature.
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Patras received his early education from Peshawar and in 1916 he moved from Islamia College Peshawar to join Government College, Lahore. After completing his Masters in English he was appointed as lecturer at the same institution.
Patras Bokhari left Government College, Lahore in 1925 to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, to complete a Tripos in English. Many years later, the Bokhari English Prize was established there in his honour.[2][3]
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Ibn e Insha
Ibn e Insha (Urdu: ابن انشاء) born in British India as Sher Muhammad Khan (Urdu: شیر محمد خان) is a renowned Pakistani Urdu poet, humorist, travelogue writer and columnist. Along with his poetry, he is regarded one of the best humorists of Urdu literature. His poetry has a distinctive diction laced with language reminiscent of Amir Khusro in its use of words and construction.
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He migrated to Pakistan after partition and served at various government institutions including Radio Pakistan, the Ministry of Culture and the National Book Centre of Pakistan. He also served at UN for some time. This enabled him to visit many places, all of which inspired the travelogues he would then pen.
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انیس اشفاق کا تعلق تہذیبی شہر لکھنؤ سے ہے۔ انھوں نے اپنی تعلیم اوّل تا آخر اسی شہر سے حاصل کی اور 1983ء میں وہ یہیں کی دانش گاہ لکھنؤ یونیورسٹی کے شعبۂ اُردو میں لیکچرر کے مستقل عہدے پر فائز ہوئے۔ کوئی 32 برس درس و تدریس کی خدمات انجام دینے کے بعد 2012ء میں وہ پروفیسر اور صدر کی حیثیت سے سبکدوش ہوئے۔ انیس اشفاق اہم اور نامور ادیبوں کی علمی صحبتوں میں جوان ہوئے اور انھیں صحبتوں نے ان کی تخلیقی اور تنقیدی صلاحیتوں کو پروان چڑھایا۔ تخلیق، تنقید اور تحقیق سے متعلق اب تک ان کی 25 کتابیں اور 300سے زائد مضامین شائع ہو چکے ہیں۔ اُن کی مشہور تنقیدی کتابوں میں ’’اُردو غزل میں علامت نگاری‘‘، ’’ادب کی باتیں‘‘، ’’بحث و تنقید‘‘، ’’ غزل کا نیا علامتی نظام‘‘ اور ’’غالب دنیائے معانی کا مطالعہ‘‘ شامل ہیں۔ انھوں نے تین بہت اہم ناول ’’دکھیارے‘‘ (2014ء)، ’’
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Abdullah Hussein
Abdullah Hussein was an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Pakistan famous for his novel Udaas Naslain.
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Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (Urdu: مستنصر حسين تارڑ) is a Pakistani author, actor, the first Morning Show presenter and a pioneer trekker - in his own words: a vagabond.
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Having made a name for himself by taking the mantle in Pakistan's mountaineering community, Mustansar Hussain is widely recognized as one of the most well known personalities in Pakistan. Though the origin of his fame is usually considered to be his established and decorated career as a writer, Tarar can also be recognized as the foremost endorser for tourism projects in Northern Areas of Pakistan, having exorbitantly increased the array of tourist exposure to the areas by becoming both a mountaineer and an adventure author who uses these locations as backdrops for his storyline -
Raja Anwar
Raja Anwar is a Pakistani journalist, writer, and former PPP political activist. He belongs to the Bhakral Rajput clan. He was born in Kallar Syedan Tehsil.
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Anwar was appointed as an adviser on Students and Labour in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government (1974–1977). He escaped to Afghanistan after Bhutto was toppled by a right-wing military coup led by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
In Kabul, Anwar joined Bhutto's elder son, Murtaza Bhutto, and formed Al-Zulfiqar, a leftist insurgency committed to toppling the Zia dictatorship. Raja Anwar had a falling with Murtaza over the latter's controversial terror tactics in 1980 and wanted to return to Pakistan and help Murtaza's sister, Benazir Bhutto's political struggle against Zia. Anwar was imprisoned in a Kabu -
Ali Akbar Natiq
Ali Akbar Natiq began working as a mason, specializing in domes and minarets, to contribute to the family income while he read widely in Urdu and Arabic. Acclaimed as one of the brightest stars in Pakistan's literary firmament, Natiq has published two volumes of poetry and one collection of short stories.
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अली अकबर नातिक़ का जन्म 1976 में ओकारा, पाकिस्तान में हुआ था। मैट्रिक करने के बाद उन्होंने अपने परिवार के गुज़ारे के लिए एक राजमिस्त्री के रूप में काम करना शुरू किया और गुंबदों और मीनारों के माहिर मिस्त्री बन गए। उन्होंने उर्दू और अरबी साहित्य खूब पढ़ा और प्राइवेट से बीए की डिग्री हासिल की। उन्होंने उर्दू पत्रिकाओं में अपनी शुरुआती कहानियों और कविताओं के प्रकाशन के साथ ही साहित्य की दुनिया में अपना खास मुकाम बना लिया। उन्हें उर्दू में लिखने -
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Deputy Nazir Ahmad
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, populary known as "Diptee" (Deputy) Nazir Ahmad (1831–1912), was an Urdu writer and social reformer from British India.
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Mukhtar Masood
Mukhtar Masood (Urdu: مختار مسعود) is a Pakistani Urdu writer and bureaucrat.
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A graduate from Sir Syed's Muslim University Aligarh, he migrated to Pakistan after independence and was among the three candidates who succeeded in the civil service competitive exam held in January 1949. He then gradually rose to become a commissioner and a federal secretary. Later on he served as chairman of the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP) and secretary-general of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD).
So far he has written 3 books in Urdu:
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Raza Ali Abidi
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Muhammad Khan
Colonel Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل محمد خان) is a Pakistan Army officer and a writer. He also served in British Indian Army and was a veteran of World War II. While serving in Pakistan Army, he wrote his first book Bajung Aamad (Urdu: بجنگ آمد) which is a humorous account of his life in Iraq, Libya and Egypt as a soldier during World War II. This book became extremely popular and earned him critically acclaimed prominence among Urdu humorists. He is considered one of the most influential authors of this genre.
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He is mostly known as Colonel Muhammad Khan to distinguish him from other bearers of this common name, despite his efforts to be recognised by his birth name. Later editions of his books show his name as just Muhammad Khan.
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Syed Muhammad Ashraf
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.
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Abdul Haleem Sharar
Abdul Halim Sharar was a prolific Indian Urdu language author, playwright, essayist and historian from Lucknow. He left behind, in all, hundred and two books. He often wrote about the Islamic past and extolled virtues like courage, bravery, magnanimity and religious fervour.
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Malikul Azia Varjina (1889),
Firdaus-e-Bareen (1899),
Zawal-e-Baghdad (1912),
Husn ka Daku (1913–1914),
Darbar-e-Harampur (1914)
and Fateh Maftuh (1916) are some of his famous novels.
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Javed Iqbal
Justice (retired) Javid Iqbal (Urdu: جاوید اقبال; b. October 5, 1924) HI, is a Pakistani philosopher and former senior justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan who is internationally known for his acclaimed publications on philosophy of law and modern Islamic philosophy in reputed international and national journals.
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He is the son of the poet-philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal and has authored various books on Pakistan's nationalism, movement and political ideology of Pakistan. Apart philosophy, Javid had a prolific career in Judiciary of Pakistan and had been a former Chief Justice of Lahore High Court before elevating to Supreme Court. -
Altaf Fatima
Altaf Fatima (born 1927 in Lucknow, British India) was an Urdu novelist, short-story writer, and teacher (specializing in Muhammad Iqbal). Her novel Dastak Na Do ("Do not knock") is regarded as one of the defining works in the Urdu language. An adaptation was presented on Pakistan television and an abridged translation was serialised by the Karachi monthly, Herald.
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Altaf Fatima was the second of four children born in a Muslim household in Lucknow, India, to Mohammad Fazle Amin and his wife Mumtaz Jahan.
She was living in Lahore, Pakistan at the end of her life, to where she had retired as a professor of Urdu, but continued her literary work.
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Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi born Ahmad Shah Awan was an Urdu and English language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art, and was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. His poetry was distinguished by its humanism, and his Urdu afsanay (short stories) are considered second only to Prem Chand in its depiction of rural culture. He was also editor and publisher of the literary magazine Funoon for almost half a century.
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He received several awards such as the Pride of Performance in 1968, Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1980 and Pakistan's highest literary award Kamal-e-Fun Award in 1998 for his literary works. -
Iqbal Khursheed
Iqbal Khursheed is a writer, editor, columnist and interviewer from Pakistan. He is the editor of literary magazine "IJRA".
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A. Hameed
Abdul Hameed (b. 1928) was a popular Urdu fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan who wrote over 200 books.
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Hameed was born in 1928 in Amritsar British India. He passed his secondary education in Amritsar. He migrated to Pakistan after partition and passed intermediate in Pakistan as a private candidate and join Radio Pakistan as assistant script editor. After working some year for Radio Pakistan he joined Voice of America.
Manzil's first collection of short stories received popular acclaim and made him a recognized romantic short story writer. Apart from writing short stories and novels he wrote columns for national news papers. He also wrote for radio and television.
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Rajinder Singh Bedi
Rajinder Singh Bedi was an Urdu writer, playwright (who later became a Hindi film director), screenwriter and dialogue writer. He belonged to Progressive Writers' Movement and is considered one of the leading 20th century progressive writers of Urdu fiction.
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Spanning fifty years and 72 short stories, his literary career was marked with versatility and represented one of the finest creative writing in Urdu literature. His stories "Garam Coat" and "Lajvanti" are considered among the masterpieces of Urdu short stories. His later collections of short stories were "Kokh Jali" and "Apne Dukh Mujhe Dedo" and a collection of plays "Saat Khel". -
Ikramullah
Ikramullah was born in 1930 in Jandiala, India, and finished primary school in Amritsar. After partition, he moved to Multan where he earned a bachelors degree before proceeding on to the University Law College in Lahore for LLB. He joined the Insurance trade in 1965, after practicing as an independent lawyer. His first collection of short stories ‘Jungle’ was published in 1962 to critical acclaim, followed by several other works of fiction including ‘Badaltey Qalib’, ‘Sawa Naizey Par Sooraj’ and ‘Saaye Ki Awaz’. He also translated Chinua Achebe’s ‘Things Fall Apart’ as ‘Bikharti Duniya’ on behalf of National Book Foundation.
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Zeenat Hisam
Zeenat Hisam is an independent writer-researcher and translator from Pakistan. Over the span of her career, she has written extensively on labour, gender and social development issues. She undertook evaluation of projects for a number of not-for-profit organisations working on community infrastructure development (2023), urban development (2022), women and child healthcare; women’s empowerment; women prisoners; women and crisis management in the Karachi violence; and the campaign against honour killings in the 2000s and 1990s.Her published works include a number of research reports, a couple of books, articles, book reviews, travelogues, personal essays and literary translations.
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