Qurat-ul-Ain Haider
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Qurat-ul-Ain Haider is one of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu Literature. Both her parents, Sajjad Haider Yildrim and Bint-e Baqir, were noted Urdu writers. "Aini", as she is called by her family and friends, hails from a respectable family of civil servants from UP, India. She started writing at a very young age and already at the age of nineteen wrote her first novel "Mayray Bhee Sanam khanay". Her magnum opus "Aag ka darya" set a new trend in Urdu literature. She migrated along with her family members to Pakistan in 1947 at the time of independence, but some years later decided to go back to India, where she has since lived. She worked as a journalist to earn her living but kept publishing short stories, literary translations and novels regularly, by now almost thirty in number.
It should always be remembered that she is one of the best writers about the partition of the subcontinent. Starting from the amazing Aag ka Darya, and the cynical yet deeply penetrating Aakhre shab ke Hamsafar to the great …Chandni Begum, she explores the lives of ordinary people at different eras of history. She is prolific, politically correct and an extremely literary and well read writer.
