Journal of Research (Urdu), BZU - Multan

(جرنل آف ریسرچ (اردو

Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan (Pakistan)
ISSN (print): 1726-9067
ISSN (online): 1816-3424
Abstract

The Baloch writers of Pakistan contributed a lot in the genre of Urdu short story.  This article critically introduces such Baloch writers and their collections of Urdu short stories. Those Baloch writers who translated the foreign short stories or compiled collections, have also been critically appraised. The Baloch writers contributed 21 collections of Urdu Short stories so far, out of them 13 are self written, three partially written, three translated from Balochi, Brahoi and English literature, while two collections have been compiled. The prominent Baloch Urdu short story writers are: Prof. Anwar Ahmed Zai, Rafia Sarfraz Ahmadani, Tariq Baloch Sahrai, Abdul Rehman Ghaur, Muhammad Shafi Baloch, Mussarat Leghari, Maulana Noor Ahmed Khan Fareedi, and Prof. Yasmin Huma Gurmani. However Azra Hafeez ur Rehman Buzdar and Prof. Aziz Muhammad Bugti have also wrote short stories on a short scale. The fiction translators are: Afzal Murad and Prof. Dr. Shah Muhammad Marri. The short story collection Compilers are: Prof.  Dr. Imtiaz Baloch and Prof. Nasim Akhtar Nasim Mastoi. The first Urdu short story Collection written by a Baloch writer is: "Islami Afsanay Vol. I", published by Maulana  Noor Ahmed  Khan  Fareedi  in 1952. 

Author(s):

Department of Urdu, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur (Sindh)

Pakistan

Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad

Pakistan

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Details:

Type: Article
Volume: 20
Issue: 1
Language: Urdu
Id: 5e7bcf5a283af
Pages 47 - 74
Discipline: Urdu
Published December 31, 2011

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