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The list 20th-century Urdu-language writers includes Zahida Hina, Munshi Premchand, Josh Malihabadi, Ahmed Faraz and Ismat Chughtai. The list consists of 34 members.

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  • 1.

    Zahida Hina
    Pakistani journlaist
    Overview: Zahida Hina (Urdu: زاہدہ حنا) is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan.
    Date of birth: 1946
    Age: 78
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Female
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    Pakistani recipients of SAARC Literary Award 2T
    Pakistani women novelists 14T
    21st-century Pakistani women writers 16T
  • 2.

    Munshi Premchand
    Indian writer of Hindustani language
    Munshi Premchand
    Overview: Dhanpat Rai Shrivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known by his pen name Munshi Premchand ( was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature. He is one of the most celebrated ...
    Date of birth: 31 July 1880
    Date of death: 8 October 1936
    Age: 56 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Screenwriter
    Gender: Male
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    Novelists from Uttar Pradesh 56T
    19th-century Indian short story writers 12T
    Writers from Varanasi 31T
  • 3.

    Josh Malihabadi
    Indian poet (1898–1982)
    Josh Malihabadi
    Overview: Josh Malihabadi (Urdu: جوش ملیح آبادی‎) (born as Shabbir Hasan Khan; شبیر حسن خان) (5 December 1898 – 22 February 1982) popularly known as Shayar-e-Inqalab (poet of revolution) is regarded as one ...
    Date of birth: 5 December 1894
    Date of death: 22 February 1982
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Poet
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    Poets from Karachi 26T
    Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education 264T
    Poets from Uttar Pradesh 154T
  • 4.

    Ahmed Faraz
    Pakistani writer
    Ahmed Faraz
    Overview: Syed Ahmad Shah (Urdu: سید احمد شاہ‎), better known by his pen name Ahmed Faraz, (Urdu: احمد فراز‎ 12 January 1931 – 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and chairman ...
    Date of birth: 14 January 1931
    Date of death: 25 August 2008
    Age: 77 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Writer
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    Ahmad Faraz 2T
    Edwardes College alumni 33T
    21st-century Urdu-language writers 15T
  • 5.

    Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
    Pakistani writer
    Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
    Overview: Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (Urdu: احمد ندیم قاسمی‎) born Ahmad Shah Awan (Urdu: احمد شاہ اعوان‎) on 20 November 1916 – died 10 July 2006, was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary ...
    Date of birth: 20 November 1916
    Date of death: 10 January 2006
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Journalist
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century Pakistani philosophers 11T
    Pakistani male journalists 137T
    20th-century male writers 5,043T
  • 6.

    Ismat Chughtai
    Indian Urdu writer and filmmaker (1915–1991)
    Ismat Chughtai
    Overview: Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and ...
    Date of birth: 15 August 1915
    Date of death: 24 October 1991
    Age: 76 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Screenwriter
    Gender: Male
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    20th-century Indian screenwriters 170T
    Recipients of Ghalib Award 10T
    20th-century memoirists 804T
  • 7.

    Qasim Mahmood
    Pakistani writer
    Qasim Mahmood
    Overview: Syed Qasim Mahmood (Urdu: سید قاسم محمود; 17 November 1928 – 31 March 2010) was a Pakistani intellectual and Urdu short story writer, novelist, editor, publisher, translator and foremost encyclopedist ...
    Date of birth: 17 November 1928
    Date of death: 31 March 2010
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Journalist
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    Urdu-language writers from Pakistan 21T
    Urdu-language writers from British India 30T
    Urdu-language translators 11T
  • 8.

    Zahida Khatun Sherwani
    Indian Urdu-language poet
    Overview: Zahida Khatun Sherwani (18 December 1894 – 2 February 1922) was an Indian poet and writer who wrote in the Urdu language and was also an activist for women's rights. She published her poetry under the ...
    Date of birth: 18 December 1894
    Date of death: 2 February 1922
    Age: 27 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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  • 9.

    Idris Azad
    Pakistani writer
    Idris Azad
    Overview: Idris Azad (Urdu: ادریس آزاد‎, born Idrees Ahmad Urdu: ادریس احمد‎) on 7 August 1969, is an author, philosopher, novelist, poet, dramatist and columnist. He has written several books on fiction ...
    Date of birth: 7 August 1969
    Age: 55
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Journalist
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    Pakistani sceptics 4T
    Pakistani male short story writers 32T
    20th-century Pakistani short story writers 14T
  • 10.

    Ahmad Shafi
    Bangladeshi Sunni Islamic scholar (1930–2020)
    Ahmad Shafi
    Overview: Shah Ahmad Shafi (Bengali: শাহ আহমদ শফী) (1916 – 18 September 2020) was the chief of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh, rector of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam Hathazari and also the chairman of ...
    Date of birth: 1916
    Date of death: 18 September 2020
    Age: 104 (age at death)
    Nationality: Bangladeshi
    Occupation: Religion
    Gender: Male
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  • 11.

    Muhammad Iqbal
    Indian writer and politician
    Muhammad Iqbal
    Overview: Sir Muhammad Iqbal (Urdu: محمد اقبال‎; 9 November 1877 – 21 April 1938) was a Muslim poet, philosopher and politician from Punjab, British India (now in Pakistan), whose poetry in Urdu and ...
    Date of birth: 9 November 1877
    Date of death: 21 April 1938
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Indian Arabic-language poets 3T
    Muhammad Iqbal family 4T
    20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 261T
  • 12.

    Jamiluddin Aali
    Writer, scholar, Urdu poet from Pakistan (1926–2015)
    Overview: Nawabzada Mirza Jamiluddin Ahmed Khan PP, HI (20 January 1925 – 23 November 2015), better known as Jamiluddin Aali or Aaliji, was a Pakistani poet, critic, playwright, essayist, columnist, and scholar ...
    Date of birth: 20 January 1926
    Date of death: 23 November 2015
    Age: 89 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Writer
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    Recipients of the Adamjee Literary Award 35T
    Poets from Karachi 26T
    Urdu-language dramatists and playwrights 4T
  • 13.
    Overview: Syed Akbar Hussain, popularly known as Akbar Allahabadi (16 November 1846 – 15 February 1921) was an Indian Urdu poet in the genre of satire.
    Date of birth: 16 November 1846
    Date of death: 15 February 1921
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Poet
    Gender: Male
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    Writers from Allahabad 32T
    20th-century Indian male writers 1,202T
    19th-century Indian poets 142T
  • 14.

    Naseem Hijazi
    Pakistani writer
    Naseem Hijazi
    Overview: Sharif Hussain (Urdu: شریف حسین), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: نسیم حجازی, commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi or Nasim Hijazi) (19 May 1914 – 2 March 1996), was an Urdu novelist.
    Date of birth: 19 May 1914
    Date of death: 1996
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Writer
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    Urdu-language historical novelists 2T
    Urdu-language writers from Pakistan 21T
    Urdu-language travel writers 15T
  • 15.

    Shibli Nomani
    Indian Islamic scholar and philosopher (1857–1914)
    Shibli Nomani
    Overview: Shibli Nomani (Urdu: علّامہ شِبلی نُعمانی‎ – ʿAllāmah Šiblī Noʿmānī; 3 June 1857 – 18 November 1914, Azamgarh district) was an Islamic scholar from the Indian subcontinent during British Raj ...
    Date of birth: 3 June 1857
    Date of death: 18 November 1914
    Age: 57 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Critic
    Gender: Male
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    19th-century Indian non-fiction writers 23T
    Scholars from Lucknow 39T
    19th-century Indian philosophers 45T
  • 16.

    Jon Elia
    Pakistani academic
    Jon Elia
    Overview: Syed Hussain Jaun Asghar Naqvi, commonly known as Jaun Elia (Urdu: جون ایلیا‎, 14 December 1931 – 8 November 2002), was an Indo-Pak Urdu poet, philosopher, biographer, and scholar. He was the brother ...
    Date of birth: 14 December 1931
    Date of death: 8 November 2002
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Writer
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    Pakistani anarchists 1T
    Members of the Pakistan Philosophical Congress 19T
    Poets from Karachi 26T
  • 17.

    Muhammad Faizullah
    Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (1890–1976)
    Muhammad Faizullah
    Overview: Muhammad Faizullah (1890–1976) was a Bangladeshi Deobandi Islamic scholar, mufti, poet, educator and a reformer. He was among early students to study at the Darul Uloom Hathazari. He was an alumnus of ...
    Date of birth: 1890
    Date of death: 1976
    Age: 85 (age at death)
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    Grand Mufti of Darul Uloom Hathazari 1T
    Darul Uloom Hathazari Alumni 5T
    20th-century Bengalis 426T
  • 18.

    Mahir ul Qadri
    Writer, poet and novelist
    Overview: Mahirul Qadri (Urdu ماہر القادری) whose real name was Manzoor Hussain was a writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in village Kesar Kalan Tahsil Pilibhit on 30 July 1906, in Bulandshahar district of Uttar ...
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Philosopher
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  • 19.

    Hamida Salim
    Indian author, economist, and educator
    Overview: Hamida Salim (1922-2015) was an Indian author, economist, and educator, writing primarily in the Urdu language. She was the first woman to graduate from Aligarh Muslim University.
    Date of birth: 1922
    Date of death: 2015
    Age: 92 (age at death)
    Nationality: Indian
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    Ali Akbar Natiq
    Pakistani poet and writer
    Overview: Ali Akbar Natiq (born 22 December 1974) is an Urdu poet and short story writer from Pakistan. He began working as a mason, specializing in domes and minarets, to contribute to the family income while he ...
    Date of birth: 22 December 1974
    Age: 49
    Nationality: Pakistani
    Occupation: Novelist
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