Publisher	Women Unlimited
Publication Year	2024
ISBN-13	9789385606441
ISBN-10	9385606441
Binding	Paperback
Number of Pages	438 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	21.50 x 14 x 2.5
Weight (grms)	500
Subject	Indian Writing

Qurratulain Hyder

Qurratulain Hyder (20 January 1927 – 21 August 2007) was an influential Indian Urdu novelist and short story writer, an academic, and a journalist. One of the most outstanding literary names in Urdu literature, she is best known for her magnum opus, Aag Ka Darya (River of Fire), a novel first published in Urdu in 1959, from Lahore, Pakistan, that stretches from the 4th century BC to post partition of India.[1][2] Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneers of Urdu short story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880–1943). Her mother, Nazar Zahra, who wrote at first as Bint-i-Nazrul Baqar and later as Nazar Sajjad Hyder (1894–1967), was also a novelist and protegee of Muhammadi Begam and her husband Syed Mumtaz Ali, who published her first novel.

Fatima Rizvi

Fatima Rizvi is a Professor in the Department of English and Modern European Languages at the University of Lucknow. She has translated Qurratulain Hyder’s Beyond the Stars & Other Stories, and co-edited Understanding Disability: Interdisciplinary Critical Approaches.

Sufia Kidwai

Sufia Kidwai taught English at Christ Church College, Lucknow. She has translated Mirza Jafar Hussain’s Lucknow ka Dastarkhwan and The Classic Cuisine of Lucknow: a Food Memoir, and edited and contributed to the anthology, Lucknowi Bawarchi Khane: Food from Lucknow Homes.