WHICH is the first novel ever written in Urdu? Which are the best and/or important Urdu novels written during the last one-and-a-half century? By the way, the best and important may not always be ...

In my opinion, Mustansar Hussain Tarar is matchless, and he has produced the best works of fiction. People knew him for his travelogues, but he wrote the best Urdu novels.

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 ...