Famous Fiction Writer's 12th Death Anniversary Observed

The 12th death anniversary of famous Pakistani fiction writer Shaukat Siddiqui also known for Urdu language novels "Khuda ki Basti" and "Jangloos", observed on Tuesday.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Dec, 2018 ) :The 12th death anniversary of famous Pakistani fiction writer Shaukat Siddiqui also known for urdu language novels "Khuda ki Basti" and "Jangloos", observed on Tuesday.

Siddiqui's first short story, "Kaun Kisi Ka", appeared in Weekly Khayyam in Lahore, Pakistan. In 1952, his first collection of short stories, Teesra Admi, was brought out and proved to be a great success. Subsequently, other collections of short stories followed, Andhere Dur Andhere (1955), Raaton Ka Shehar (1956) and Keemya Gar (1984).

His masterpiece is Khuda Ki Basti, which has appeared in 50 editions and has been translated into 26 languages. It has been dramatized again and again.David Mathews of London University translated it in English.

The novels Kamin Gah (1956), Jangloos (in three volumes, 1988), and Char Deewari (1990) are fictionalized accounts of his childhood in Lucknow, India.

He was died on December 18, 2006 of cardiac arrest in Karachi at the age of 83.

Siddiqui was known to use the technique of socialist realism in his writings, he also portrayed the life of a poor sections of Karachi successfully through his writings.

Siddiqui was born on 20 March 1923 in a literary family of Lucknow, British India.

He completed early education in his home town and done B.A in 1944 and M.A (Political Science) in 1944.

After the partition of India, he migrated to Pakistan in 1950 and stayed in Lahore, but soon permanently settled in Karachi.

He was an active member of the Pakistan Writers' Guild and a member of the Progressive Writers Association which was then and still is a part of the larger organization, the Progressive Writers Movement in the India-Pakistan subcontinent.