Web Desk: The 17th death anniversary of novelist and short story writer Qurratulain Hyder is being observed today.
She born on January 20th , 1927 in Alligarh.
She was one of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature. Her literary works included twelve novels and four collections of short stories.
Her first short story‚ Bi-Chuhiya (Little Miss Mouse)‚ was published in children’s magazine Phool and at the age of nineteen, she wrote her first novel “Mayray Bhee Sanam Khanay”.
She was the daughter of writer and pioneers 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
She died on this day in India’s Uttar Pradesh in the year 2007.