Author · Pakistan
Qurratulain Hyder
Died in 2007
Qurratulain Hyder was born on 20 January 1927 in Aligarh, the daughter of the writer Sajjad Haidar Yaldram and the novelist Nazar Sajjad Haidar. Having left for Pakistan at Partition in 1947, she returned to India in 1960 and worked there as a journalist, notably for the Illustrated Weekly of India. A novelist and short-story writer, she received the Jnanpith Award in 1989 for Aakhir-e-Shab ke Humsafar, then the Padma Bhushan in 2005. She died near New Delhi on 21 August 2007.
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- NovelRiver of Fireآگ کا دریاQurratulain Hyder · 1959Literature