Qurratulain Hyder

by | Jul 18, 2025 | Padma Bhushan, Urdu Literature

Qurratulain Hyder (1927-2007) was a monumental figure in 20th-century Urdu literature, celebrated as a novelist, scholar, and translator who fundamentally reshaped the landscape of modern fiction in South Asia. Born in Aligarh, India, in 1927 to a family of...