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ALI, AHMED Selected Short Stories from Pakistan: Urdu
Islamabad, Pakistan Academy of Letters. 1983. First Edition. [vii], 234pp, Introduction, stories by Ahmed Ali, Ahmed Nadim Qasmi, Akhtar Jamal, Ashfaq Ahmad, Enver Sajjad, Ghulam Abbas, Intizar Husain, Majila Hashmi, Khalida Husain, Muhammad Hasan Askari, Mumtaz Mufti, Mumtaz Shirin, Saadat Hasan Manto and Shafiqur Rahman, Notes on Authors. 8vo/22cm. Untitled grey cloth, near fine in lightly rubbed dj adhered to boards (but upside down), otherwise internally clean, tight and very good. NF/VG+. The editor gives the short fifty year background of the Urdu short story and indicates that the fourteen he has chosen represent the essence of these writers' literary achievement and creative genius. Professor Ahmed Ali (1910-1994) was one of Pakistan's most distinguished writers. A co-founder of the All India Progressive Writers Association, his novel Twilight in Delhi (1940) was a major success and led reviewers to rank him with Mulk Raj Anand and R.K. Narayan. In 1979 he was elected a Founding Member of the Pakistan Academy of Letters (founded in 1976), he received the Sitara-i-Imtiaz award in 1980 for his contributions to letters and the nation and a stamp was struck in his honor. This edition is scarce.
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