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"Misery lit" has been proven to be a popular genre for literary hoaxes in which authors claim to reveal painful stories from their past. One early such hoax was the 1836 book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun's Life in a Convent Exposed, by Maria Monk, which claimed to tell of Monk's abuse in a convent. The book ...
Rekhta is an Indian web portal started by Rekhta Foundation, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the Urdu literature. [4] The Rekhta Library Project, its books preservation initiative, has successfully digitized approximately 200,000 books over a span of ten years. [5]
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language. While it tends to be dominated by poetry , especially the verse forms of the ghazal ( غزل ) and nazm ( نظم ), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana ...
Sahitya Akademi Award is an annual literary honour, given since 1955, by Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters), to writers and their works, for their outstanding contribution to the upliftment of Indian literature. Urdu is one of 24 languages in which the award is given. [1] [2]
Namdev, the Bhakti saint and contemporary of Dnyaneshwar is the other significant literary figure from this era. Namdev composed religious songs in Marathi as well as Hindi; some of his Hindi compositions are included in the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib. Another early Marathi writer was Mukundaraja, who wrote Vivekasindhu and Paramamrita.
Many scholars and literary critics consider Rohzin to be the most beautiful and creative novel written in Urdu in the last few decades. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Critic and former President of Sahitya Akademi (New Delhi), Professor Gopi Chand Narang , said that Rohzin is an important turning point in the history of Urdu fiction. [ 33 ]
Ashob is regarded by scholars as an important historical genre in Persian, Urdu and Turkish literature used by the writers to express their anguish and sorrows over political and social shifts. [4] [5] The Ashobs generally describe emotional and thoughts of a writer in a narrative poetic format based on several features. [6]