Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi organized Dr. Nasir Abbas Nayyar’s thought-provoking lecture titled “Absence of Urdu Novel ...

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 ...

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 ...

LUCKNOW: The ‘Yaad-e-Kalbe Mustafa Naqvi’ seminar-cum-exhibition, showcasing rare Urdu manuscripts and novels of the late jurist and Urdu scholar Syed Kalbe Mustafa, took place at Vishal Khand ...

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 ...