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Qurratulain Hyder

1927 - 2007

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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 partition of India. Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneer of Urdu short story writing Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram (1880–1943). Her mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also a novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Qurratulain Hyder is the 4,287th most popular writer (up from 4,856th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from India (up from 613th in 2019) and the 68th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 4,287 out of 7,302. Before her are Besiki, Arthur Ransome, Frans Michael Franzén, Hal Clement, Julius Zeyer, and Anna Haava. After her are Graham Swift, Cecil Day-Lewis, Philippe Hériat, Bozorg Alavi, Dai Sijie, and Malika Oufkir.

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Among people born in 1927, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 281. Before her are B. V. Doshi, Robert Spaemann, Robert Mills, Tihomir Ognjanov, Thorkild Hansen, and Charles Pasqua. After her are Herbert W. Franke, Yevgeny Morgunov, Greta Andersen, Karl Stotz, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Otto Stich. Among people deceased in 2007, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 237. Before her are Giuseppe Baldo, Kurt Schmied, Isidore Isou, Roger Beaufrand, Henry L. Giclas, and Kenji Miyamoto. After her are Iccho Itoh, Petr Eben, Art Buchwald, Antonio Puerta, Rosalio José Castillo Lara, and Francisco Umbral.

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In India

Among people born in India, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 577 out of 1,861. Before her are B. V. Doshi (1927), Manorama (1937), Zinat-un-Nissa Begum (1643), Ratna Pathak (1957), Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908), and Rambhadracharya (1950). After her are Baselios Cleemis (1959), Bal Thackeray (1926), Nutan (1936), Akshata Murty (1980), Pooja Hegde (1990), and Devi Shetty (1953).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 68. Before her are U. R. Ananthamurthy (1932), Bharatendu Harishchandra (1850), Arundhati Roy (1961), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Surdas (1478), and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (1908). After her are Nagarjun (1911), Faizi (1547), Balamani Amma (1909), R. K. Narayan (1906), Firaq Gorakhpuri (1896), and Krishan Chander (1914).

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