Böcker av Syed Muhammad Ashraf

Syed Muhammad Ashraf (SM Ashraf) is a Retd. Civil Servant (IRS) and an Urdu novelist and short-story writer of distinction. He is first person to qualify civil service examination in Urdu language in India. He has written novels and several collections of short stories. Some of his stories have been translated into English and other languages. He has received the Sahitya Academy Award in 2004 and Aalmi Farogh-e-Urdu Adab Award by Majlis-e-Farogh-e-Urdu Qatar in 2018.

Irfan siddiqui was born 8th Jan 1939 in Badayun. His poetic works include "kanvas","Shab-e-darmian", "Ishq-nama","Saat amavat","Hava-e-dashte marya". "Darya" is the compilation of all these books published from Pakistan. He died in Lucknow in 2004.Its a total poetry collection of Irfan Siddiqui compiled by famous Urdu Short story writer & novelist Syed Muhammad Ashraf.

Author, critic, and translator M. ASADUDDIN writes on syncretic cultural traditions in India, literature, and language politics. He is currently Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Languages, and former director, Centre for Comparative Religions and Civilizations. He was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2008-2009, and a Charles Wallace Trust Fellow at the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, 2000. He has lectured at the universities of Delhi, Kolkata, Dhaka, Paris, Oxford, Cambridge, East Anglia, Chicago, Rutgers, New York, St. Louis, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Among his twenty books are Image and Representation: Stories of Muslim Lives in India (with Mushirul Hasan), Filming Fiction: Tagore, Premchand and Ray, Premchand in World Languages: Translation, Reception and Cinematic Representations, and Premchand: The Complete Short Stories. He has received the Katha Award, Dr A. K. Ramanujan Award, Sahitya Akademi Award, and Crossword Book Award.