About The Author
Krishan Chander is one of the most widely read Indian fiction writer through out the world. His works have been translated not only into Indian languages but into various languages of the world. In erstwhile USSR two million copies of his works were sold and doctorates were con-ferred on German and Czech scholars for their research on him. A Theatrical pro-duction of his novel EK AURAT HAZAR DIWANE had a long run in a Moscow thea-tre and a children's carton film was made based on his novel Ulta Darakht. Born in 1913 in Bharatpur state of Rajasthan, Krishan Chander grew up in Poonch (Kash-mir) where his father was a Doctor Kash-mir's natural beauty and the grim poverty of its people left such a deep imprint on his creative psyche that Krishan Chander emerged as a writer, unparalleled in his de-piction of Nature and unfailing commitment to the cause of common people. Such blend-ing of sensibilities inspired him to write some of the world's best romantic, idyllic, humanistic and revolutionary pieces of un-conventional fiction. In his early period he wrote in Eng-lish bot later he wrote exclusively in urdu.
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