Description
This is a comprehensive, first full-length interview of the leading Urdu novelist, Qurratulain Hyder that unfailingly highlights lesser known biographical details and creative aspects. It is an intimate and free-wheeling extended dialogue between two writers, a kind of literary disquisition that is rare in Urdu, and no writer can vie with Jameel Akhtar on this count. No other book explores this well-known author�s work in such detail. This is an important and insightful view of Qurratulain Hyder�s life and work.

About the Author / Editor
Dr Jameel Akhtar, a renowned literary personality of India, was born in Darbhanga, Bihar. He received a PhD in Urdu from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He did his M Phil and MA also from JNU. He has published over twenty five books, including Isharya Aaj Kal, a first of its kind two-volume Urdu Dictionary of Mass Media Terms; Andaz-e-Bayan Aur (Interview with Qurratulain Hyder); Kulliyat Qurratulain Hyder, in four volumes; and Kulliyat Balwant Singh, in eight volumes. More than 50 articles have been published in different journals of India and Pakistan so far. He received the Cultural Academy, Bangalore, 1989, �West Bengal Urdu Academy prize� on the book 'Mujahid-e- Urdu Award' from Ghalib Isharya Aaj Kal, 1989, 'C.L. Nepali Award' by C. L. Nepali Memorial Society, Delhi, 2001, and the 'Dr. Jai Naindra Kumar Award' from Bhartiya Sahitya Parishad, Delhi. 2001. Dr Akhtar has been a regular broadcaster on All India Radio. He has presented many programmes on various TV channels as well.