Author | Khadija Mastoor |
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Original title | آنگن |
Translator | Neelam Hussain |
Language | Urdu |
Genres | |
Set in | British India and Pakistan in the 1940s[1] |
Publisher | Kitab Numa (Kitāb Numā) |
Publication date | 1962 |
Publication place | Pakistan |
Published in English | 2000 |
Media type | Print (paperback) |
Pages | 488 (first edition) |
Award | Adamjee Literary Award 1963 |
ISBN | 9693505611 (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1995) |
OCLC | 46849662 |
891.439371 | |
LC Class | PK2200.K394 A83 1962 |
Aangan /ˈɑːŋɡən/ (Urdu: آنگن, romanized: Āṅgan, lit. 'courtyard'), alternatively spelled Angan, is a period novel by Pakistani novelist and short story writer Khadija Mastoor. Published in 1962, it is hailed as a masterpiece of Urdu literature.[2][3] It won Mastoor the 1963 Adamjee Literary Award for Urdu prose and has been translated into 13 languages.[4] English translations of the novel by Neelam Hussain titled The Inner Courtyard and by Daisy Rockwell as The Women's Courtyard were published in 2001 and 2018, respectively.[5][6] A Pakistani TV series adaptation of the novel starring Mawra Hocane, Ahad Raza Mir, Ahsan Khan and Sajal Aly was aired on Hum TV from 2018 to 2019.[7] Renewed interest in the novel caused it to become the number one bestseller in the country in 2019.[8]