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WRITER

Qurratulain Hyder

1927 - 2007

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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 fourth century BC to post partition of India. Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneers of Urdu short story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880–1943). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Qurratulain Hyder has received more than 254,456 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Qurratulain Hyder is the 4,504th most popular writer (up from 4,624th in 2019), the 524th most popular biography from India (up from 525th in 2019) and the 82nd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 250k

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  • 47.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 4,504 out of 5,755. Before her are Paula Hawkins, Aleksey Koltsov, Grace Aguilar, Donald Rayfield, H. C. Artmann, and Angelo de Gubernatis. After her are Jacques Roumain, Dun Karm Psaila, Manuel Alegre, Gáspár Heltai, Paul Louis Courier, and Nikolay Mikhaylovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 286. Before her are Alvin Sargent, Bill Daily, Harold Brown, Eva Pawlik, L. Q. Jones, and Carl Switzer. After her are Kay Kendall, Clint Walker, Elliot See, Althea Gibson, Otto Stich, and Eileen Ryan. Among people deceased in 2007, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 235. Before her are Stephen Fumio Hamao, Paek Nam-sun, Giuseppe Baldo, Ernesto Alonso, Rosalio José Castillo Lara, and Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg. After her are Julius Wess, Henry L. Giclas, Izumi Sakai, Alan Ball Jr., Nicolae Dobrin, and Iwao Takamoto.

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In India

Among people born in India, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 524 out of 1,493. Before her are Jamini Roy (1887), Gangubai Hangal (1913), Dara Singh (1928), Balamani Amma (1909), Syama Prasad Mukherjee (1901), and Hariprasad Chaurasia (1938). After her are Sunny Deol (1956), Sachin Tendulkar (1973), Akshay Kumar (1967), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Erick Avari (1952), and Waheeda Rehman (1938).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 82. Before her are Kamini Roy (1864), Saadat Hasan Manto (1912), Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), Kedarnath Singh (1934), and Balamani Amma (1909). After her are Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Hansa Jivraj Mehta (1897), Shrilal Shukla (1925), Raghunath Murmu (1905), Muthuswami Dikshitar (1775), and Ravindra Kelekar (1925).

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