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, academic, and 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 pioneer of Urdu short story writing Syed Sajjad Haider Yaldram (1880–1943). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Qurratulain Hyder has received more than 267,774 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Qurratulain Hyder is the 4,856th most popular writer (down from 4,490th in 2019), the 613th most popular biography from India (down from 520th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular Indian Writer.

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  • 270k

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  • 48.00

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A woman's life, a novel
1979
Chandani begam
1999
River of Fire
2003
My temples, too
2004
The Sound of the Falling Leaves
1995
Fireflies in the Mist
1994

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 4,856 out of 7,302. Before her are Vitaliano Brancati, Jenő Rejtő, Marie Hankel, Bedros Tourian, Philippe Claudel, and Pashko Vasa. After her are Dulce María Loynaz, Andrei Mureșanu, Reiner Kunze, Bruno Frank, Len Deighton, and Konrad von Würzburg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 312. Before her are Walter Zeman, Karl Stotz, Brock Peters, Charles Jarrott, Corín Tellado, and Robert Guillaume. After her are Maati Bouabid, Elliot See, Ramsey Clark, David Padilla, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and Thadée Cisowski. Among people deceased in 2007, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 272. Before her are Chrisye, John P. Ryan, Ellen Preis, Kei Kumai, Julius Wess, and Anatol Rapoport. After her are Tony Scott, Henry L. Giclas, Angelo Conterno, Gisela Uhlen, Franz Antel, and Florea Dumitrache.

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In India

Among people born in India, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 613 out of 1,861. Before her are Bachendri Pal (1954), Randhir Kapoor (1947), Zakir Hussain (1951), Aruna Irani (1946), Sachin Tendulkar (1973), and Purushottam Das Tandon (1882). After her are Roberto de Nobili (1577), Arati Saha (1940), Karamchand Gandhi (1822), Rani Mukerji (1978), Mary Boyce (1920), and Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Qurratulain Hyder ranks 92. Before her are Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), Cerverí de Girona (1259), Shudraka (500), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), and Dharamvir Bharati (1926). After her are Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Swarnakumari Devi (1855), Sahir Ludhianvi (1921), Pratibha Ray (1944), and Amitav Ghosh (1956).

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