A few years ago he wrote a piece in a newspaper on new arrivals and, citing many new Urdu novels, concluded that Urdu novel was staging a revival. Though I was already convinced, publication of a ...

The earliest Urdu novels are testaments to and chronicles of this time and the efforts of authors to both capture its pathos and suggest the idea of reformation. Munshi Premchand and Nazir Ahmad ...

The languages represented through translation are Urdu (two novels), Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, and, for the first time, Nepali. Translator Jayasree Kalathil, who won the prize in 2020 with S ...