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Syed Abdul Malik
Indian writer (1919-2000) · India · On the map · Writers · Died at 81
Syed Abdul Malik (1919-2000) was a prominent short story writer, novelist, poet, playwright, biographer, essayist and travelogue writer. He wrote more than 2,000 stories for nearly sixty-five years. He is considered the pioneer of modern Assamese short story literature.
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He has written more than 25 collections of short stories. He also wrote about 60 novels, five collections of poems, three children's literature and 20 stage radio plays, translations, satirical essays and numerous articles.He was the President of the Abhayapuri Session of the Assam Sahitya Sabha in 1977. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1972 for his novel Aghari Atmar Kahani. In addition to Assamese, Malik had etymologies in Bengali, Persian, Hindi, Urdu, and English. He was also fluent in Oriya, Nepali, Arabic, Sanskrit and Russian.
