Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding and influential literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of India.
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20 January 1928 Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Died |
21 August 2007 (aged 79) Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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