Tuesday, 17 January 2012

57th death anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto today

LAHORE The 57TH death anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto is being observed with reverence today (Wednesday). He died at the age of 42.

Saadat Hasan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. Manto was also a film and radio scriptwriter, and a journalist.

Saadat Manto was a writer who not only enriched Urdu literature to a great extent, but influenced writers to look into the psyche of mankind.

He wrote more than 250 short stories, a novel, 5 collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches.

Manto was tried for obscenity 5 times. Some of his works have been translated in other languages as well.

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