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QURRATULAIN HYDER
Qurratulain Hyder
is a leading writer in Urdu fiction in India. A prose
stylist of rare accomplishment, she wrote in both Urdu
and English, and her books have been translated into all
Indian languages. She was awarded the Bharatiya Jnanpith,
India's highest literary award, in 1989. The recipient
of a number of other literary awards, she is a Fellow of
the Sahitya Akademi, travelled widely and worked as a
journalist and broadcaster. Her novel
River of Fire
(Women Unlimited, 2003), translated by the author from
the original Urdu
Aag ka Dariya,
has achieved epic status in fiction about the subcontinent.
My Temples, Too,
also translated by
Hyder from the original
Mere Bhi Sanamkhane,
has been published by Women Unlimited in 2004; and
Fireflies in the Mist,
was translated
from the original
Akhir-e-Shab ke Humsafar,
by Aamer Hussain was published by Women Unlimited in 2008.
Her latest title, published by Women Unlimited in 2009,
is a collection of short stories
Street Singers of Lucknow and Other Stories,
translated by Hyder herself.
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