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Ilyas Ahmad Gaddi
Introduced & translated by
Fahad Hashmi
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23585349
Abstract: Ilyas Ahmad Gaddi (1932–1997) was a famous Urdu novelist and short-story writer who hailed from Jharia, a coalfield area in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Gaddi began his literary career with a short story named Surkh Note (A Red Note), which was published in Afkar—an Urdu monthly that used to publish from Bhopal—in 1948. His two anthologies of short stories, Admi (1983) and Thaka Hua Din (1987), are widely popular in the Urdu circle. His novels include Zakhm (1953), Marham (1954), and Fire Area (1994). Fire Area is usually considered Gaddi’s magnum opus. Gaddi’s powerful imagination, as well as his literary craft, won him the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1996.
Fahad Hashmi has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Delhi, Department of Sociology (DSE). His areas of interest include political-historical anthropology, religion, Urdu Adab, and translation studies. His nonfiction works have appeared in The Hindu, The Huffington Post, and Tehelka, among others. His creative pieces have been published in literary magazines like Indian Literature—Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly magazine, The Punch Magazine, Urdu Studies, Adbi Miras, and Humsab. He was the guest editor of Café Dissensus 2017 Issue 33, Urdu in Contemporary India: Predicaments and Promises. He co-translated Audrey Truschke’s Aurangzeb: The Man And the Myth into Urdu. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the New India Foundation (NIF) Translation Fellowship.
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