Ghulam Abbas
غلام عباس
Born17 November 1909[1]
Amritsar, British India (now in Punjab, India)
DiedNovember 2, 1982(1982-11-02) (aged 71)[1]
Karachi, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Occupation(s)Writer, magazine editor, translator
Organization(s)All India Radio, during World War II
Known forShort story author[2]
Notable workJaaray ki Chandani[3]
Anandi[1]
Kan Ras
Dhanak[3]
Al-Ḥamra ke Afsane
Overcoat[1]
Jazeera-e- Sukhanwaran[2]
Mohabbat Roti Hai
Jala Wattan
AwardsSitara-e-Imtiaz in 1967

Ghulam Abbas (Urdu: غلام عباس; 17 November 1909  – 2 November 1982) was a short story writer from Pakistan.[1][2]

Personal life

His second wife was a Greek-Scottish-Romanian woman named Christian Vlasto (renamed Zainab) with whom he had a son and three daughters.[2]

Style Of Writing

Ghulam Abbas has also written stories, plays and poems for children, his main field is fiction. He has a very high position in modern Urdu fiction. He takes the plot of the fiction from around him and writes it so skillfully that the reader gets lost in its details. And is shocked at the end of it. Their characters belong to the real world. Their language is simple. The narration is lively and engaging. Technically, his fictions are impeccable. At first glance, his story seems very simple, but as we reflect on it, we see a great depth of meaning in it. The story "Overcoat" (one of his prestigious works) is very simple on the surface, but if you read it carefully, it reveals many layers of deep social meaning. Ghulam Abbas's characters are not pre-planned, but he picks up a few ordinary people from some class and corner of their society and environment and then presents them with the whole truths of their lives and all the good and bad details of their surroundings. They make their characters into ideals, not consciously convincing them to put a stamp of good on their personality, but in the world, as is usually the case, that good is often in decline and evil is rampant. Ghulam Abbas presents these things in exactly the same way. There is no extremism or idealism here, but the reflection of human nature is found in his works. There are colors of life in his art. When one gets a sense of problems and life he brings is such a deep analysis, that they bring the truth reader in front of the reader in the same way as in reality. He does not care about their egos. Rather, he brings forth the secrets of life. [4]

Books

  • Jazeera-e-Sukhanwaran (published 1937)[1]
  • Anandi (Marketplace) (a Bollywood film Mandi (1983) was based on this Ghulam Abbas's short story)[5]
  • The Women's Quarter and Other Stories from Pakistan (published 1984)[1]
  • Intikhab Ghulam Abbas (Selection of Stories by Ghulam Abbas) (compiled by Asif Farrukhi)[1]
  • Gondni wala Takiya Novel[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Profile of Ghulam Abbas (writer) on goodreads.com website Retrieved 17 January 2018
  2. 1 2 3 4 Peerzada Salman (29 May 2014). "Ghulam Abbas was a shy but deep person". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  3. 1 2 E-Books By: Ghulam Abbas on rekhta.org website Retrieved 17 January 2018
  4. ↑ O level Syllabus A, book by Amir Waheed (translation)
  5. ↑ Mandi (1983) Indian film based on Ghulam Abbas's short story on IMDb website Retrieved 17 January 2018
  6. ↑ "Gondniwala Takia / گوندنی والا تکیہ".
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