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Pakistani literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ پاکستان) is a distinct literature that gradually came to be defined after Pakistan gained nationhood status in 1947, emerging out of literary traditions of the South Asia. [1] The shared tradition of Urdu literature and English literature of British India was inherited by
This is a list of notable Urdu-language writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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 (افسانہ).
For his achievements in the development and promotion of Urdu literature, he is officially regarded as Baba-e-Urdu. [ citation needed ] His best known works include the English-Urdu dictionary, Chand Ham Asar :چند ہم عصر, Maktoobat : مکتوبات, Muqaddimat مقدمات, Tauqeedat , Qawaid-e-Urdu :قوائد اردو and Debacha ...
Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, academic, and 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 fourth century BC to post ...
The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type 432, "The Prince as Bird", [3] [4] albeit in a form that exists in South Asia. In these variants, the heroine's father brings her a fan, which she uses to summon the magical prince whose name translates to 'Wait' or the like.
Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time. [1] Mirza Muhammad Rafi, Sauda (1713–1780) Siraj Aurangabadi, Siraj (1715–1763) Mohammad Meer Soz Dehlvi, Soz (1720-1799) Khwaja Mir Dard, Dard (1721–1785)
Khadija Mastoor (Urdu: خدیجہ مستور, romanized: K͟hadījah Mastūr; 11 December 1927 – 25 July 1982) was a Pakistani Urdu-language short story writer and novelist. [1] Her novel Aangan is widely considered a literary masterpiece in Urdu literature, which has also been adapted as a television drama series .