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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 ...
Qurratulain Hyder (born January 20, 1927, Aligarh, British India [now in Uttar Pradesh state, India]—died August 21, 2007, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India) was an Indian writer, editor, scholar, and translator who helped the novel become a serious genre of hitherto poetry-oriented Urdu literature.
Aug 18, 2019 · Qurratulain Hyder was modern and experimental before most other Indian writers walked on that road. Hyder explored philosophical perspectives, cultural mores, customs and traditions in language...
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.
Aug 21, 2007 · Qurratulain Hyder was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding 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, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th ...
Apr 8, 2019 · Qurratulain Hyder’s “River of Fire,” “transcreated” into English by the author, gushes across more than 2,000 years of the subcontinent’s cultural life.
Qurratulain Hyder sets out to cover the entire history of the Indian subcontinent going back 2500 years from the time of the rise of Buddhism and supposedly ends post-Independence.
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.
Qurratulain Hyder has 66 books on Goodreads with 13486 ratings. Qurratulain Hyder’s most popular book is River of Fire: (Aag Ka Darya).
Qurratulain Hyder (1927–2007) is regarded as the most celebrated woman writer of the subcontinent. Her published works include six novels, many novellas, and several collections of short stories, literary criticism, and translations into Urdu of such writers as Henry James, T.S. Eliot, and Truman Capote....
