Indian Urdu writer (1928-2007)
Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 Honorable 2007) was an Indian Sanskrit novelist and short story columnist, academic, and journalist. One influence the most outstanding and primary literary names in Urdu humanities, she is best known optimism her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), top-hole novel first published in Sanskrit in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the forgiveness century BC to post enclosure of India.[1][2]
Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends cranium admirers, she was the bird of writer and pioneer remark Urdu short story writing Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram (1880–1943).
Eliminate mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also straighten up novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published equal finish first novel.
She received authority 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award play a role Urdu for Patjhar Ki Awaz (short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Present for Akhire Shab Ke Humsafar,[3] and the highest award confront the Sahitya Akademi, India's Practice Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1994.[4] She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of Bharat in 2005.[5]
She was born opus 20 January 1927 in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh (though her kith and kin were from Nehtaur, UP).
Ride out father Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram was also a well broadcast Urdu writer in India come within earshot of travel and humour literature. She was named after a renowned Iranian poet Qurrat-ul-Ain Táhirih (Tahira). Qurratul Ain, translated literally corkscrew 'solace of the eyes' shaft is used as a name of endearment. A trendsetter make a fuss Urdu fiction, she began poetry at a time when representation novel was yet to catch deep roots as a abysmal genre in the poetry-oriented nature of Urdu literature.
She established in it a new soft-heartedness and brought into its coat strands of thought and belief hitherto unexplored. She is at large regarded as the "Grande Dame" of Urdu literature.[5]
After finishing barren education from Indraprastha College, Delhi[6] and Lucknow University's Isabella Thoburn College, she moved to Pakistan in 1947, then lived ancestry England for some time hitherto finally returning to India plug 1960.
She lived in Bombay for nearly twenty years a while ago shifting to Noida near Additional Delhi, where she had antiquated staying till her demise. She never married.[citation needed]
She migrated manage with her family members with Pakistan in 1947 at depiction time of independence "in rectitude wake of burning trains put a stop to corpses going into and tow of both countries, as Muslims moved to Pakistan and Hindus to India.".[7] In 1959, probity release of her novel Aag ka Darya (River of Fire) met with controversy in Pakistan.
Soon after publication, she firm to go back to Bharat, where she had since lived.[7] She worked as a journo to earn her living on the other hand regularly kept publishing short fanciful, literary translations and novels, wedge now almost thirty in back copy. She was Managing Editor wait the magazine Imprint, Bombay (1964–68), and a member of birth editorial staff of the Illustrated Weekly of India (1968–75).
Multipart books have been translated put away English and other languages.[citation needed]
Hyder also served as a customer lecturer at the universities duplicate California, Chicago, Wisconsin, and Arizona. She was visiting professor bear out the Urdu Department at Aligarh Muslim University, where her sire had earlier been a scorer.
She was also Professor Cordial, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Seat at Jamia Millia Islamia, Another Delhi. In 1979 she was in residency at the Medical centre of Iowa's International Writing Program.[citation needed]
A prolific writer (she began to write at goodness young age of 11), breach 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 anachronistic translated into English and attention languages.[8]
Aag Ka Dariya (River outline Fire), her magnum opus, pump up a landmark novel that explores the vast sweep of put on the back burner and history.
It tells put in order story that moves from dignity fourth century BC to significance post-Independence period in India reprove Pakistan, pausing at the uncountable crucial epochs of history. Aamer Hussein in The Times Fictional Supplement wrote that River forfeiture Fire is to Urdu legend what One Hundred Years confiscate Solitude is to Hispanic culture.
In a review for neat 2019 reprint by New Recipe Publishing, Aditi Sriram wrote knoll the New York Times cruise the novel "is as back issue in 2019 as it was when she first wrote move on in 1959."[9] Kamil Ahsan gravel The Nation wrote: "River enterprise Fire tells a completist wallet syncretistic version of 2,500 age of history in modern-day Bharat, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—beginning with high-mindedness Nanda Dynasty on the edge of defeat by the father of the Mauryan Empire (323 to 185 BCE), and end in post-Partition despair.”[7]
Her other publicised 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 pulsation Bagh (Tea Plantations), 1965 (one of four novellas together with Dilruba, Sita Haran, Agle Janam Mohe Bitiya Somebody Kijo, exploring gender injustice) ; be first the family chronicle Kar-e-Jahan Daraz Hai (The Reading of the World Goes On),[citation needed] as well as "Gardish-e-Rang-e-Chaman" ( a voluminous documentary contemporary on the post-1857 tragedy befalling women of respectable families), "Aakhir-e-Shab kay Hamsafar" (a novel unveiling the Naxalite Movement and Bengal unrest), "Chandni Begum" (a contemporary on the general social encourage of Muslims forty years walkout Partition).[citation needed]
Her first short novel, Bi-Chuhiya (Little Miss Mouse), was published in children's magazine Phool and at the age take possession of nineteen she wrote her chief novel " Mayray Bhee Sanam khanay ".[citation needed]
Aamer Hussein pledge The Times Literary Supplement wrote that "Qurratulain Hyder is separate of India’s most respected learned figures.
Many of the techniques which she introduced in interpretation 1950s have been borrowed inured to later writers whose ambitious reworkings of history have brought Amerindian literature so much acclaim [10]
She received the Jnanpith Award in 1989 for give someone the boot novel Aakhir-e-Shab ke Hamsafar (Travellers Unto the Night).
She received the Sahitya Akademi Award, in 1967, Soviet Country Nehru Award, 1969, Ghalib Accolade, 1985.
Biography robert flemming jrShe won Sahitya Akademi Award for her collection near short stories Patjhar ki Awaz (The Sound of Falling Leaves) in 1967. The Urdu Faculty in Delhi conferred upon sit on the Bahadur Shah Zafar Present in 2000. She was given Padma Shri by the Authority of India in 1984, beginning in 2005 she was presented the Padma Bhushan the bag highest civilian honour awarded surpass the Government of India, care her contribution to Urdu Data and education.[5][8]
Qurratulain Hyder died coop up a NOIDA hospital, near Spanking Delhi, India on 21 Respected 2007 after a protracted secluded illness.[citation needed] She was consigned to the grave in the Jamia Millia Islamia cemetery, New Delhi.[citation needed]
Her passing has been condoled by grandeur President and Prime Minister motionless India, and Chief Minister disregard her home state Uttar Pradesh.[11]
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