Intikhab: Saadat Hasan Manto by Asif Farrukhi

Description

This is a representative selection of the short stories by Saadat Hasan Manto who is considered one of the best-known Urdu fiction writers. Manto made a deep and lasting impact on Urdu literature through his celebrated short stories. Many of his post-Partition stories centred around the communal horrors of the period. The introduction by the well-known literary critic, Asif Farrukhi, is written with a view to make the meaning of Manto’s crusade manifest to the present generation.

Author Biography

Dr. Asif Farrukhi is a professor, short story-writer, critic and a renowned literary figure of Pakistan. He has compiled many anthologies of Pakistani writers. He regularly contributes to a leading daily, Dawn Karachi and different literary periodicals. He is currently editing and publishing a literary miscellany in Urdu Duniyazaad. He is a Doctor of Medicine by profession. He received the Prime Minister’s award for literature in 1995 and Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in 2005 by the President of Pakistan.