Intizar Husain, veteran Urdu short story writer, poet and journalist has passed away at the age of 93. Husain’s books include ‘Gali Koochay’, ‘Kankari’, ‘Din Aur Dastan’, ‘Shehr-i-afsos’, ‘Kachhuay’, ‘Khaimay Say Door’, ‘Khali Pinjra’, ‘Morenama’ and ‘Sheharzad Kay Naam’.

 About Husain 

• Born on December 7, 1923 at Dibai in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh in India, he migrated to Lahore in 1947.
• He did his MA (Urdu) in 1946 from the Meerut College. He worked in various newspapers and retired from ‘Daily Mashriq’ in 1988.
• Husain was conferred the ‘Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters’ by France in 2014.
• He was among the 10 finalists for the Man Booker International Prize for fiction in 2013.
• He was the first Pakistani and the first Urdu writer ever to be nominated for the international award.