Firaq Gorakhpuri
1896–1982Urdu author (1896-1982)
writer (1911-1991)
Ismat Chughtai
1911–1991, born Budaun, writes in Urdu, writer
Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.
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Books on record
On Open Library
Lifting the Veil2018
Crooked Line2000
The Crooked Line (Asian Writers)1995
Lifting the Veil2003
My Friend, My Enemy2001
The Quilt and Other Stories1999Editions Open Library lists under this name; a namesake may slip in.
Elsewhere
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Also writing in Urdu
Ghulam Nabi Gowhar
1934–2018Kashmiri writer (1934-2018)
Gulzar
b. 1933poet, lyricist and author (1933- Present)
Naiyer Masud
1936–2017writer
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi
1935–2020Urdu language poet, author, critic and theorist.
Singireddy NarayanaReddy
1931–2017Jnanpith awardee and renowned Telugu poet