Naiyer Masud
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Born | 1936 Lucknow, India |
Died | (aged 81) |
Nationality | Indian |
Naiyer Masud (1936 – 24 July 2017)[1] was an Indian Urdu scholar and short story writer.[2][3][4]
Early life and education[]
Masud was born in Lucknow and spent nearly all his life there, working until his retirement as a Professor of Persian at Lucknow University.
Masud was the son of Masud Hassan Rizvi, also a Lucknow University Professor of Persian, a famed scholar of dastaan who was awarded the 'Padma Shri' for 'Literature and Education' in 1970. He is the elder brother of the noted satirist .
Career and honors[]
Masud is the author of many scholarly books and translations (notably of Kafka), but is best known for his short stories, collected in the volumes Ganjifa, , , and . For the last, he was awarded the 2001 Urdu prize of the Sahitya Akademi and the Saraswati Samman in 2007.
He received the honor of being the subject of the entire 1997 issue of the .[5]
A large selection of his stories have been translated into English by M.U. Memon in the volumes and .
References[]
- ^ "Naiyer Masud, who metamorphosed Kafka in Urdu, dies at 81 - Times of India".
- ^ Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (25 July 2017). "Prominent scholar Naiyer Masud passes away".
- ^ Dawn Books And Authors (17 February 2013). "COLUMN: Naiyer Masud: "A passionate but calm realist of the strange" by Muhammad Umar Memon". DAWN. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ^ "Naiyer Masud". Penguin Books India. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- 1936 births
- 2017 deaths
- Urdu-language writers from India
- Indian Muslims
- Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu
- Writers from Lucknow
- University of Lucknow faculty
- Urdu-language writers
- Urdu-language short story writers
- 20th-century Indian short story writers