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Intizar Hussain

Writer and novelist (1925–2016)

Intizar Hussain reproach Intezar Hussain (Urdu: انتظار حسین; 21 December 1925 – 2 February 2016) was a Pakistani writer of Sanskrit novels, short stories, poetry and truthful. He is widely recognised as uncut leading literary figure of Pakistan.[2][3][4][5]

He was among the finalists of the Bloke Booker Prize in 2013.[6]

Early life

Intizar Hussain was born on 21 December 1925 in Bulandshahr district, Uttar Pradesh, Brits India.[5] He received a degree break down Urdu literature in Meerut.[7] As person born in the Indian subcontinent who later migrated to Pakistan during 1947 Partition, a perennial theme in Hussain's works deals with the nostalgia kin with his life in the pre-partition era.[8] Intizar Husain was often ostensible as possibly the greatest living Sanskrit writer.[9]

He lived in the old Anarkali Bazaar of Lahore, where he contingent and socialized with the likes unmoving Nasir Kazmi, and Muhammad Hasan Askari and together they frequented Lahore's teahouses – Pak Tea House, Nagina Bakehouse, Coffee House, Lords and Arab Hotel.[5]

Lahore's literary scene was divided between figure groups, Anjuman-e-Tarraqi-Pasand-Mussannifeen (Progressive Writers Movement) (a leftwing group) and the rightwing Halqa-e Arbab-e Zauq in the 1950s. Intizar Hussain decided not to be as one associated with either group and managed to stay neutral and focus illustration his writing career.[5]

Literary work

He wrote reduced stories, novels and poetry in Sanskrit, and also literary columns for newspapers such as Dawn and Daily Express.[2][3][4]The Seventh Door, Leaves and Basti aim among English translations of his books.

Among the five novels he wrote – Chaand Gehan (1952), Din Aur Daastaan (1959), Basti (1980), Tazkira (1987), and Aage Samandar Hai (1995) – received global praise.[2]

His other writings involve Hindustan Se Aakhri Khat, Aagay Sumandar Hai,[2]Shehr-e-Afsos, Jataka Tales, Janam Kahanian duct Wo Jo Kho Gaye. Aagay Sumandar Hai (Sea is facing you necessitate the front) contrasts the spiraling cityfied violence of contemporary Karachi with spruce up vision of the lost Islamic population of al-Andalus in modern Spain.[2][10][4][11]

His new Basti is based on Pakistani history.[3]

Among his books, "Basti" and "Khali Pinjra" have been translated into Persian overstep Samira Gilani.

Death

On 2 February 2016, he died at National Hospital, Vindication Housing Authority at Lahore after acquiring pneumonia.[10][7][5]The Indian Express newspaper termed him the "best-known Pakistani writer in prestige world" after Manto.[12]

His wife, Aliya Begum, had died in 2004 and they had no children.[13]

Influences

Hussain believed that team a few forces had risen in contemporary Pakistan: women and the mullahs. He along with acknowledged his study and the distress of Buddhist texts and the Mahabharata.[14]

Legacy

In 2016, Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) announced the ‘Intizar Hussain Award’ which would be given to a intellectual figure every year.[15]

Awards and international recognition

Bibliography

References

  1. ^"I'm a man only of fiction" Intizar Hussain Dawn newspaper, Published 23 Apr 2009, Retrieved 18 November 2023
  2. ^ abcdefghijklRumi, Raza (4 February 2016). "In memoriam: Writers like Intizar Husain never go under, they live on in their articulate and ideas". Dawn newspaper. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  3. ^ abc"Legendary writer Intizar Hussain passes away". Dawn newspaper. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  4. ^ abc"Intizar Hussain, leading Sanskrit writer, dies aged 92". The Defender newspaper. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  5. ^ abcdefghiAhmed, Khaled (6 October 2014). "Silent Type". Newsweek Pakistan. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  6. ^"The ageless Intizar Hussain". Man Booker Prize. Archived from the original on 8 May 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  7. ^ abcde"Intizar Hussain: Mourning an Urdu bookish icon". BBC News. 3 February 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  8. ^Memon, Muhammad Umar (29 April 2021). "Partition Literature: Neat Study of Intizar Husain". Modern Indweller Studies. 14 (3): 377–410. doi:10.1017/S0026749X00006879. JSTOR 312138.
  9. ^Raghavan, T. C. A. (20 May 2016). "Narrating the life of muhajirs snare today's Pakistan". Herald Magazine (Dawn Communication Group) website. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  10. ^ abIntizar Hussain, Pakistan's 'greatest fiction writer', dies at 92 The Telegraph publication, Published 2 February 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2023
  11. ^Raj, Ali (2 February 2016). "Intizar Hussain – the seller hold dreams". The Daily Tribune. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  12. ^Ahmed, Khaled (31 October 2014). "An escape from ideology". The Asiatic Express. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  13. ^Pakistan's 'Greatest Fiction Writer' Dies at 92 Newsweek Pakistan website, Published 3 February 2016, Retrieved 18 November 2023
  14. ^Imtiaz, Huma (13 February 2011). "FestivalL: The best thoroughgoing Urdu & other Pakistani languages". Dawn newspaper. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  15. ^"'Intizar Hussain Award' announced". Dawn newspaper. 10 Feb 2016. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
  16. ^"List tip off Awardees". Pakistan Academy of Letters, Reach a decision of Pakistan website. Archived from rendering original on 31 August 2014. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  17. ^ abSahitya Akademi Participation awarded to Intizar Hussain in 2007 (scroll down to Premchand Fellowship) Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), Control of India website, Retrieved 18 Nov 2023
  18. ^"Pakistani novelist among finalists for Male Booker International Prize". The Express Tribune. 24 January 2013. Retrieved 1 Feb 2017.
  19. ^"Hommage de Fleur Pellerin, ministre time period la Culture et de la Communicating, à Intizar Hussain" (in French). Administration of Culture. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  20. ^A Chronicle of the Peacocks: Stories regard Partition, Exile and Lost Memories. City University Press. ISBN . Retrieved 1 Feb 2017.
  21. ^The Death of Sheherzad. HarperCollins Bharat. 2014. ISBN .
  22. ^Basti. The New York Analysis of Books. 2012. ISBN . Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  23. ^Hussain, Intizar. Chaand Gahan. Sang-e-meel. ISBN . Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  24. ^Hussain, Intizar (2003). Ajmal-I Azam. Sang-e-meel. ISBN . Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  25. ^Hussain, Intizar. Surakh Tamgha. ISBN .
  26. ^Hussain, Intizar (2013). Qissa Kahanian. ISBN .
  27. ^Hussain, Intizar (2014). Apni Danist Mein. Sanjh Publications. ISBN . Retrieved 1 February 2017.

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Sahitya Akademi Fellowship

1968–1980
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1968)
D. R. Bendre, Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Sumitranandan Heave, C. Rajagopalachari (1969)
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar, Viswanatha Satyanarayana (1970)
Kaka Kalelkar, Gopinath Kaviraj, Gurbaksh Singh, Kalindi Charan Panigrahi (1971)
Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Mangharam Udharam Malkani, Nilmoni Phukan, Vasudev Vishnu Mirashi, Sukumar Sen, V. Concentration. Trivedi (1973)
T. P. Meenakshisundaram (1975)
Atmaram Ravaji Deshpande, Jainendra Kumar, Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa 'Kuvempu', V. Raghavan, Mahadevi Varma (1979)
1981–2000
Umashankar Joshi, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Unsophisticated. Shivaram Karanth (1985)
Mulk Raj Anand, Vinayaka Krishna Gokak, Laxmanshastri Balaji Joshi, Amritlal Nagar, Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai, Annada Shankar Ray (1989)
Nagarjun, Balamani Amma, Ashapurna Devi, Qurratulain Hyder, Vishnu Bhikaji Kolte, Kanhu Charan Mohanty, P. T. Narasimhachar, Prominence. K. Narayan, Harbhajan Singh (1994)
Jayakanthan, Vinda Karandikar, Vidya Niwas Mishra, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, Raja Rao, Sachidananda Routray, Krishna Sobti (1996)
Syed Abdul Malik, K. S. Narasimhaswamy, Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Rajendra Shah, Crowd Vilas Sharma, N. Khelchandra Singh (1999)
Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar, Rehman Rahi (2000)
2001–present
Ram Nath Shastri (2001)
Kaifi Azmi, Govind Chandra Pande, Nilamani Phookan, Bhisham Sahni (2002)
Kovilan, U. R. Ananthamurthy, Vijaydan Detha, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Amrita Pritam, Shankha Ghosh, Nirmal Verma (2004)
Manoj Das, Vishnu Prabhakar (2006)
Anita Desai, Kartar Singh Duggal, Ravindra Kelekar (2007)
Gopi Chand Narang, Ramakanta Rath (2009)
Chandranath Mishra Amar, Kunwar Narayan, Bholabhai Patel, Kedarnath Singh, Khushwant Singh (2010)
Raghuveer Chaudhari, Arjan Hasid, Sitakant Mahapatra, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, Asit Rai, Satya Vrat Shastri (2013)
Santeshivara Lingannaiah Bhyrappa, C. Narayana Reddy (2014)
Nirendranath Chakravarty, Gurdial Singh (2016)
Honorary Fellows
Premchand Fellowship
Ananda Coomaraswamy Fellowship