Naiyer Masud

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Naiyer Masud is one of the foremost short story writers in Urdu. He was born in Lucknow in 1936 and has spent nearly all his life there, working until his retirement as a Professor of Persian in Lucknow University. He is the author of many scholarly books and translations (notably of Kafka), but is best known for his short stories, collected in the volumes Ganjifa, Simiya, Itr-e-kaafoor, and Taoos Chaman Ki Myna. For the last, he was awarded the 2001 Urdu prize of the Sahitya Akademi and the Saraswati Samman in 2007. He also received the honor of being the subject of the 1997 entire issue of the Annual of Urdu Studies.^[1] A large selection of his stories have been translated into English by M.U. Memon in the volumes The Snake Catcher and Essence of Camphor. Masud is the son of Syed Masud Hasan Rizvi 'Adeeb', also a Lucknow University Professor of Persian and a famed scholar of dastaan who was awarded the 'Padma Shri' for 'Literature and Education' in 1970, and the brother of the noted satirist Azhar Masud.

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↑ http://www.urdustudies.com/Issue12/i12home.html

M.U. Memon, Naiyer Masud: A Prefatory Note

v t e Saraswati Samman

1990-1999	Ismat Chughtai (1990) Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1991) Ramakanta Rath (1992) Vijay Tendulkar (1993) Harbhajan Singh (1994) Balamani Amma (1995) Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (1996) Manubhai Pancholi (1997) Shankha Ghosh (1998) Indira Parthasarathy (1999)

2000-2009	Manoj Das (2000) Dalip Kaur Tiwana (2001) Mahesh Elkunchwar (2002) Govind Chandra Pande (2003) Sunil Gangopadhyay (2004) Ayyappa Paniker (2005) Jagannath Prasad Das (2006) Naiyer Masud (2007) Lakshmi Nandan Bora (2008) Surjit Paatar (2009)

2010-2019	S. L. Bhyrappa (2010) A. A. Manavalan (2011) Rohit Gautam (2012) Sugathakumari (2013)

Lucknow University, Department of Urdu

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