Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 â€" 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 Lahore,
Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of
India.[1][2]Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and
admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneers of Urdu short
story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880â€"1943). Her mother, Nazar
Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar
Sajjad Hyder (1894â€"1967), was also a novelist and protegee of
Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her
first novel.She received the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for
Patjhar Ki Awaz (Short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Award for Akhire Shab
Ke Humsafar,[3] and the highest award of the Sahitya Akademi, India's
National Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in
1994.[4] She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of
India in 2005.[5]
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 Lahore,
Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of
India.[1][2]Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and
admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneers of Urdu short
story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880â€"1943). Her mother, Nazar
Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar
Sajjad Hyder (1894â€"1967), was also a novelist and protegee of
Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her
first novel.She received the 1967 Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for
Patjhar Ki Awaz (Short stories), 1989 Jnanpith Award for Akhire Shab
Ke Humsafar,[3] and the highest award of the Sahitya Akademi, India's
National Academy of Letters, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in
1994.[4] She also received the Padma Bhushan from the Government of
India in 2005.[5]
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