Hajra Rehan

Dec 7, 2024 | dawn.com | Hajra Rehan |Mohammad Yaqoob |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana

Darya-i-Hulan Ki Kahaniyan (Tales of Hulan River)By Xiao HongTranslated by Inaam NadeemPakistan Academy of LettersISBN: 978-969-472-593-2242pp. Hū lán hé zhuàn or Tales of Hulan River is a celebrated autobiographical novel by the Chinese writer Xiao Hong (1911-1942). It is a poignant and evocative story about the author’s childhood, from when she was between three to 12 years old (ie 1914-1923), which she spent in a remote village near the Hulan River in northeastern China.

Jun 1, 2024 | dawn.com | Hajra Rehan |Tahir Mehdi |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana

The One Who Did Not AskBy Altaf FatimaTranslated by Rukhsana AhmadLightstone PublishersISBN: 978-969-7161-72-0387pp. The One Who Did Not Ask is the English translation by Rukhsana Ahmad of Altaf Fatima’s Urdu novel Dastak Na Do. Rukhsana Ahmad has written and adapted several plays for the stage and BBC, achieving distinction in both. Dastak Na Do was serialised and televised in the early days of PTV and an abridged translation was published monthly in the Herald.

Jan 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Hajra Rehan |Sara Danial |Zafar Masud |Tariq Suleman

Dukhtar-i-Rumi (Rumi’s Daughter)By Muriel MaufroyTranslated by Inaam NadeemBook CornerISBN: 978-969-662-509-4256pp. Kimya Khatoon has been made famous to the West, due to the information provided in Rumi’s Untold Story by Shahram Shiva. Her name was intentionally left out from almost all biographies of Rumi. Even the late former head of Mideast Studies at Harvard Prof Annemarie Schimmel, not wanting to muddy Rumi’s story in her otherwise fine book Rumi’s World, wiped Kimya out.