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| Born | 21 August 1915 Budaun, United Provinces, British India |
| Died | 24 October 1991 (aged 76) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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| Language | Urdu |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Aligarh Muslim University |
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| Notable works | Works of Ismat Chughtai |
| Children | Seema Sawhny Sabrina Lateef |
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Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.