Period 1928 - 2011 Name Abdul Hameed | Role Fiction writer Books Miti ki Mona Lisa | |
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Occupation Novelist, short story writer, playwright and broadcaster Notable works Ambar, Naag & Maria, Tahly Thallay (TV serial), Ainak Wala Jin (A TV serial for children) Died April 29, 2011, Lahore, Pakistan Similar Ata ul Haq Qasmi, Mujeeb ur Rehman Shami, Orya Maqbool Jan | ||
Abdul Hameed (Urdu: اے۔ حمید-; 1928 – 29 April 2011) was an Urdu fiction writer from Pakistan. He was also mainly known for writing a popular children's TV play Ainak Wala Jin (1993) for Pakistan Television Corporation which was broadcast on PTV during the mid-1990s.
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Early life and education
Hameed was born in 1928 in Amritsar, British India. He completed his high school education in Amritsar and migrated to Lahore after the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and finished some college education in Pakistan as a private candidate and joined Radio Pakistan, Lahore as an assistant script editor. After working at Radio Pakistan for several years, he became a fiction book writer.
Writer
Hameed's first collection of short stories 'Manzil Manzil' received popular acclaim and he became recognized romantic short story writer. Apart from writing short stories and novels, he wrote columns for national newspapers. He also wrote plays for radio and television.
He has written more than 200 books. Urdu She'r Ki Dastan, Urdu Nasr ki Dastan (in which he has given information about the prose literature of many Urdu prose writers from Banda Nawaz Gesu Daraz to the recent prose writers of Deccan and Gujrat), Mirza Ghalib, Dastango Ashfaq Ahmad and Mirza Ghalib Lahore Meini are his most famous books.
His drama Ainak Wala Jin was popular with children in the 1990s. Moreover, his fantasy series of 100 novels for children known as the Ambar Naag Maria Series increased his popularity. He was awarded Pride of Performance by the Government of Pakistan.
Death
Abdul Hameed died on 29 April 2011 at the age of 83. His funeral was attended by many fellow writers including Ata ul Haq Qasmi and the veteran journalist Mujibur Rehman Shami. His literary contributions were acknowledged and comments were made that it was a great loss for the literary circles of Pakistan.