Koh-i-Damavand (URDU)

Author: Qurratulain Hyder
Publisher: Educational Publishing House
Year: 2000
Language: Urdu
Pages: 342
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187667079

Description

An outstanding reportage by India's well-known Urdu writer. This travelogue covers Iran, Russia, Kashmir, South India, and reminiscences. Her non-fiction writing has a unique quality of its own.

THE AUTHOR:

QURRATULAIN HYDER is one of the leading writers of Urdu fiction in India. A prose stylist of rare accomplishment, she writes both in Urdu and English, and her books have been translated into all Indian languages. She was awarded the Bharatiya Jnanpith, India's highest literary award, in 1989. The recipient of a number of other literary awards, she is a Fellow of Sahitya Akademi, has traveled widely and has worked as a journalist and broadcaster.