Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai

Born(1915-08-21)21 August 1915
Budaun, United Provinces, British India
Died24 October 1991(1991-10-24) (aged 76)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation
  • Writer
  • filmmaker
  • essayist
LanguageUrdu
NationalityIndian
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
Genre
  • Short stories
  • novel
  • plays
Notable worksWorks of Ismat Chughtai
ChildrenSeema Sawhny
Sabrina Lateef

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.