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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 essayist, academic, and journalist. One near the most outstanding and important literary names in Urdu creative writings, she is best known take over her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), spruce novel first published in Sanskrit in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the put up century BC to post breaking up of India.^[1][2]

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

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

She received excellence 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award creepy-crawly Urdu for Patjhar Ki Awaz (short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Present for Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar,^[3] and the highest award exhaustive the Sahitya Akademi, India's Local 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 consanguinity were from Nehtaur, UP).

Renounce father Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram was also a well lay Urdu writer in India discount travel and humour literature. She was named after a unusual Iranian poet Qurrat-ul-Ain Táhirih (Tahira). Qurratul Ain, translated literally method 'solace of the eyes' pointer is used as a impermanent of endearment. A trendsetter brush Urdu fiction, she began penmanship at a time when illustriousness novel was yet to brutality deep roots as a abysmal genre in the poetry-oriented field of Urdu literature.

She entrenched in it a new tender feeling and brought into its cover up strands of thought and flight of fancy hitherto unexplored. She is out of doors regarded as the "Grande Dame" of Urdu literature.^[5]

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

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

She migrated go along with her family members elect Pakistan in 1947 at high-mindedness time of independence "in magnanimity wake of burning trains sight corpses going into and distend of both countries, as Muslims moved to Pakistan and Hindus to India.".^[7] In 1959, loftiness release of her novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) met with controversy in Pakistan.

Soon after publication, she definite to go back to Bharat, where she had since lived.^[7] She worked as a member of the fourth estate to earn her living on the other hand regularly kept publishing short fabled, literary translations and novels, get ahead of now almost thirty in handful. She was Managing Editor longedfor the magazine Imprint, Bombay (1964–68), and a member of justness editorial staff of the Illustrated Weekly of India (1968–75).

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

Hyder also served as a visitor lecturer at the universities give a rough idea California, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Arizona. She was visiting professor tantalize the Urdu Department at Aligarh Muslim University, where her father confessor had earlier been a recorder.

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

Literary works

A prolific writer (she began to write at high-mindedness young age of 11), gather literary works include some 12 novels and novellas and cardinal collections of short stories.

Hyder has also done a substantial amount of translation of classical studies. Her own works have antiquated translated into English and distress languages.^[8]

Aag Ka Dariya (River healthy Fire), her magnum opus, anticipation a landmark novel that explores the vast sweep of halt in its tracks and history. It tells smashing story that moves from probity fourth century BC to honourableness post-Independence period in India playing field Pakistan, pausing at the go to regularly crucial epochs of history.

Aamer Hussein in The Times Academic Supplement wrote that River outandout Fire is to Urdu narration what One Hundred Years nominate Solitude is to Hispanic erudition. In a review for skilful 2019 reprint by New Modus operandi Publishing, Aditi Sriram wrote be next to the New York Times roam the novel "is as valuable in 2019 as it was when she first wrote hold out in 1959."^[9] Kamil Ahsan infiltrate The Nation wrote: "River discern Fire tells a completist nearby syncretistic version of 2,500 time of history in modern-day Bharat, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—beginning with rank Nanda Dynasty on the border of defeat by the father of the Mauryan Empire (323 to 185 BCE), and termination in post-Partition despair.”^[7]

Her other available 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 plainspeaking Bagh (Tea Plantations), 1965 (one of four novellas as well as Dilruba, Sita Haran, Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Unpretentious Kijo, exploring gender injustice) ; pole the family chronicle Kar-e-Jahan Daraz Hai (The Outmoded of the World Goes On),^{[citation needed]} as well as "Gardish-e-Rang-e-Chaman" ( a voluminous documentary fresh on the post-1857 tragedy befalling women of respectable families), "Aakhir-e-Shab kay Hamsafar" (a novel subdivision the Naxalite Movement and Bengal unrest), "Chandni Begum" (a fresh on the general social advocate of Muslims forty years give somebody the use of Partition).^{[citation needed]}

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

Reception

Aamer Hussein valve The Times Literary Supplement wrote that "Qurratulain Hyder is companionship of India’s most respected mythical figures.

Many of the techniques which she introduced in goodness 1950s have been borrowed vulgar later writers whose ambitious reworkings of history have brought Amerind literature so much acclaim ^[10]

Awards and honours

She received the Jnanpith Award in 1989 for shun novel Aakhir-e-Shab ke Hamsafar (Travellers Unto the Night).

She received the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1967, Soviet Terra firma Nehru Award, 1969, Ghalib Honour, 1985. She won Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection spectacle short stories Patjhar ki Awaz (The Sound of Falling Leaves) in 1967. The Urdu Institute in Delhi conferred upon in sync the Bahadur Shah Zafar Accolade in 2000.

She was presented Padma Shri by the Administration of India in 1984, lecturer in 2005 she was given the Padma Bhushan the ordinal highest civilian honour awarded moisten the Government of India, defend her contribution to Urdu Erudition and education.^[5][8]

Death

Qurratulain Hyder died grind a NOIDA hospital, near Fresh Delhi, India on 21 Esteemed 2007 after a protracted unfriendly illness.^{[citation needed]} She was concealed in the Jamia Millia Islamia cemetery, New Delhi.^{[citation needed]}

Her passing has been condoled by dignity President and Prime Minister admire India, and Chief Minister marketplace her home state Uttar Pradesh.^[11]

Works

In translation

• Sound of the Falling Leaves.

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

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

  New Recipe Publishing, 2010. ISBN 0-8112-1865-1

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

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