{"id":8637,"date":"2016-02-06T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T09:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=8637"},"modified":"2016-02-06T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T09:25:44","slug":"intizar-husain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/intizar-husain\/","title":{"rendered":"Intizar Husain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Recently passed away veteran Urdu short story writer, poet and journalist Intizar Husain was conferred the &#8216;Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters&#8217; by France in year-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) 2012<br \/>\n(b) 2014<br \/>\n(c) 2010<br \/>\n(d) 2011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (b)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Intizar Husain, veteran Urdu short story writer, poet and journalist passed away on 2 February 2016 in Lahore, Pakistan. He was 92.<\/li>\n<li>Hussain was among the 10 finalists and the first Pakistani author ever to be nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2013.<\/li>\n<li>He was born on December 7, 1923 at Dibai in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh in India; he migrated to Lahore in 1947.<\/li>\n<li>He completed his degree\u00a0in 1946 from the Meerut College. He worked in various newspapers and retired from &#8216;Daily Mashriq&#8217; in 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Husain was conferred the &#8216;Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters&#8217; by France in 2014.<\/li>\n<li>His famous books include &#8216;Gali Koochay&#8217;, &#8216;Kankari&#8217;, &#8216;Din Aur Dastan&#8217;, &#8216;Shehr-i-afsos&#8217;, &#8216;Kachhuay&#8217;, &#8216;Khaimay Say Door&#8217;, &#8216;Khali Pinjra&#8217;, &#8216;Morenama&#8217; and &#8216;Sheharzad Kay Naam&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>He also known for works such as &#8216;Basti&#8217;, &#8216;Hindustan Se Aakhri Khat&#8217;, &#8216;Jataka Tales&#8217; and &#8216;Janam Kahanian&#8217;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/m.newindianexpress.com\/world\/612018\">http:\/\/m.newindianexpress.com\/world\/612018<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1236988\">http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1236988<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/veteran-pakistani-writer-intizar-husain-dies-at-93\/1\/585916.html\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/veteran-pakistani-writer-intizar-husain-dies-at-93\/1\/585916.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently passed away veteran Urdu short story writer, poet and journalist Intizar Husain was conferred the &#8216;Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters&#8217; by France in year- (a) 2012 (b) 2014 (c) 2010 (d) 2011 Ans (b) Related facts: Intizar Husain, veteran Urdu short story writer, poet and journalist passed away on 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}