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Ismat Chughtai

Indian writer (1911-1991) · India · Writers · Died at 80

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Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective.

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Awards

Padma Shri in literature and education1976
Filmfare Awards1975

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Ismat Chughtai was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Country
India
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1911 to 1991 · aged 80

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