Saadat Hasan Manto

Saadat Hasan Manto was born on 11 May 1912 in Samrala, in the Punjab, the son of a judge. In Amritsar, the scholar Abdul Bari Alig introduced him to Russian and French authors, and he translated Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde into Urdu. After attending Aligarh University in 1934, he worked in Bombay for the press and the cinema, then at Delhi radio, and left for Lahore in 1948. Prosecuted six times for obscenity, three times before the partition and three times after, he was never convicted. He died in Lahore on 18 January 1955.

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• Short storiesآتش پارےSaadat Hasan Manto · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature