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Qurratulain Hyder, 1927- | |||
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Born in 1927 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the most celebrated of Urdu fiction writers. A trendsetter in Urdu fiction, she began writing at a time when the novel was yet to take deep roots as a serious genre in the poetry-oriented world of Urdu literature. She shook it out of its stagnation and purged it of its obsession with fantasy, romance and frivolous realism. She instilled in it a new sensibility and brought into its fold strands of thought and imagination hitherto unexplored. A prolific writer, she has so far written some 12 novels and novellas,
four collections of short stories and has done a significant amount of
translation of classics. Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), her
magnum opus, is a landmark novel that explores the vast sweep of time
and history. It tells a story that moves from the fourth century BC to
the post-Independence period in India and Pakistan, pausing at the many
crucial epochs of history. Her books have been translated into English and other languages. The Library of Congress has twenty-one books by her.
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