Padma Shri Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Puruskar Shrikant Verma Smriti Samman Virsingh Deo Award Vageshwari Award Shikhar Samman Pahal Samman
Manzoor Ahtesham (3 April 1948 – 26 April 2021) was an Indian writer of Hindi literature known for his depiction of the lives of the Indian Muslim community in independent India.[1][2]
Tamasha Tatha Anya Kahaniyan (Short story anthology - 2001)[12]
Ek Tha Badshah (Play - 1980)
Sukha Bargad has been translated into English under the name, A Dying Banyan, by Kuldip Singh[13] while Dastan E Lapata has been translated by Jason Grunebaum and Ulrike Stark under the title The Tale of the Missing Man.[1][2] In 2007, New York magazine cited the book as one of the best novels not yet available in English.[14] Grunebaum and Stark's translation was issued by Northwestern University Press in 2018.[15]
Awards
Ahtesham was a recipient of several awards such as Bharatiya Bhasha Parishad Puruskar, Shrikant Verma Smriti Samman, Virsingh Deo Award, Vageshwari Award, Shikhar Samman, Pahal Samman and Maithilee Sharan Gupt Award 2017–2018.[1] He received the Padma Shri, the fourth-highest Indian civilian award, in 2003.[16]
