Asif Farrukhi writes a definitive work on Intizar Husain’s life and craft Intizar Husain is the name of an era. As they say whenever a literary giant leaves this stage of life, he lives on in the form ...

The government on Tuesday announced the annual Intizar Hussain Literary Award in order to pay tribute to the literary services of the renowned fiction writer. “Intizar Hussain Literary Award would be ...

Was it his prose, scintillating, deceptively pellucid, smoothly flowing, never pausing to search for the most suitable word or phrase? Or was it his studious refusal to permit literature to be used as ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for 2013, Intizar Husain (1923-2016) has chronicled the changes that unspooled from the Partition of 1947 possibly like no other writer from the ...

Intizar Hussain, one of the most prominent Urdu fiction writers of our times, is no more. But the dreams and tales he weaved with vivid images, metaphors and allusions will remain with us, as long as ...

“INTIZAR Hussain used to view our present in the perspective of our past and future,” writes Prof Fateh Muhammad Malik in the foreword to his new book Intizar Hussain ka khwaab nama. Once Intizar ...

On Monday, an anti-terrorism court in Karachi gave death sentence to two police officials for murdering Intizar in a “planned encounter” in 2018. The ATC judge found police constables Bilal Rasheed ...