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WRITER

Saadat Hasan Manto

1912 - 1955

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Saadat Hasan Manto (; Punjabi, Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, pronounced [səˈaːd̪ət̪ ˈɦəsən ˈməɳʈoː]; 11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana, who was active in British India and later, after the 1947 partition of India, in Pakistan. Writing mainly in Urdu, he produced 22 collections of short stories, a novel, five series of radio plays, three collections of essays and two collections of personal sketches. His best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saadat Hasan Manto has received more than 2,660,994 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Saadat Hasan Manto is the 4,189th most popular writer (down from 4,090th in 2019), the 484th most popular biography from India (down from 440th in 2019) and the 77th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Saadat Hasan Manto ranks 4,189 out of 5,755. Before him are Źmitrok Biadula, Fadwa Tuqan, Jakob Hurt, Anthony Hope, Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, and John Piper. After him are Albert Ehrenstein, Alexander Tairov, Juan José Millás, Hjalmar Bergman, Hart Crane, and Petras Cvirka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Saadat Hasan Manto ranks 223. Before him are Arne Brustad, Frank Thomas, Walter Sisulu, Émile Allais, Maurice Guigue, and Akram al-Hawrani. After him are Pietro Ferraris, Mario Genta, Walter J. Ong, Enrique Fernández Viola, Manuel Rosas, and Paul Janes. Among people deceased in 1955, Saadat Hasan Manto ranks 106. Before him are Tom Moore, Manny Ayulo, Hamida Javanshir, Leonardus Nardus, Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich, and Fumio Hayasaka. After him are Jenő Fuchs, Nick Winter, Honus Wagner, Johannes de Jong, Shemp Howard, and Jonni Myyrä.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saadat Hasan Manto ranks 484 out of 1,493. Before him are Kamini Roy (1864), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Robert Swinhoe (1836), Phoolan Devi (1963), Fatima Jinnah (1893), and Islam Shah Suri (1510). After him are V. S. Ramachandran (1951), Arjun Appadurai (1949), Jackie Shroff (1957), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889), and Barry Hay (1948).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Saadat Hasan Manto ranks 77. Before him are Yashpal (1903), Nirmal Verma (1929), Mahadev Desai (1892), Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (1898), Dharamvir Bharati (1926), and Kamini Roy (1864). After him are Kamala Surayya (1934), Jayakanthan (1934), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Balamani Amma (1909), Qurratulain Hyder (1927), and Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942).

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