| Urdu literature has a long and colorful history,The afsāna, or short story, probably the best-known genre of Urdū fiction. The best-known afsāna writers, or afsāna nigār, in Urdū are Saadat Hasan Manto, Qurat-ul-Ain Haider, Munshi Premchand, Ismat Chughtai, Krishan Chander, Ghulam Abbas, Banu Qudsia and Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi. Munshi Premchand, became known as a pioneer in the afsāna.The 'Ghazal' in Urdū represents the most popular form of subjective poetry,Mir, Ghalib, Dagh and Faiz are well-known composers of ghazal. |
