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  2. Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist.

  3. May 6, 2024 · Qurratulain Hyder was an Indian writer, editor, scholar, and translator who helped the novel become a serious genre of hitherto poetry-oriented Urdu literature. Her masterwork, Aag ka darya (1959; River of Fire), has been compared to those of Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez and Czech.

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. 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.

  5. May 18, 2024 · Qurratulain Hyder. Common to several of the short stories, pen-portraits, and memoir pieces collected in At Home in India, is the delightful figure of the modern Indian woman.

    • Saloni Sharma
  6. 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...

  7. Aug 21, 2007 · 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 century BC to post partition of India.

  8. 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.