Saadat Hasan Manto

On this day May 11; Saadat Hasan Manto was a writer, playwright and author born in British India. He Birth day.

Saadat Hasan Manto ; (Screenwriter) was born on May 11, 1912(age 106) in India under https://eventandtech.blogspot.in/2018/05/may-11-academy-of-motion-picture-arts.html. Saadat Hasan Manto ranking is 87843 ! Please boost for higher rank to be on top of Trending birthdays. Let's discover Saadat Hasan Manto's profile such as: Date of Birth, Birth Place, Current Age, Hight, Nationality, Star sign, Parents, Siblings, Family members, Personal life, Childhood, Early life, Awards and Achievements, Known for, Interesting facts, Networth, House owned, Cars owned, Brand Bmbassador, Owened Business. Explore more details about Saadat Hasan Manto on Wikipedia. Read trending tweets about Saadat Hasan Manto on Twitter. Find professional information about Saadat Hasan Manto on Linkedin below.

Career

He was well-known Pakistani writer, Author, Playwright, Essayist, Screenwriter, Novelist & Translator. He began his literature career with an Urdu translation and during his beginning career, he was very much inspired by the real writers of Franch and Russia such as Anton, Hugo, Maxim Gorky and Chekhov. 

In late 1930, Saadat Hasan Manto was incidentally involved with the Indian Progressive writers Association and its left-inclining abstract movement that was focused on the beliefs of social elevate and equity through literature.

An enormous turning point came into his life in 1933, when he was of 21years, he gets an opportunity to meet with Abdul Bari Alig, who was a scholar and polemic writer in Amritsar.He encouraged by Abdul Bari Alig for his true talents and influenced him to read French and Russian Authors.

The books written by Saadat Hasan Manto are as follows– Atish Paray (1936), Toba Tek Singh (1955), Thanda Goshta (1950), Kaali Shalwar (1961), Manto ke Afsane (1944), Afsane aur dramay (1943), Manto Ki Behtareen Kahanian (1963) and many  others like Bombay Stories, Selected Stories, etc..

Manto chronicled the chaos that prevailed, during and after the Partition of India in 1947. He started his literary career translating the works of Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Russian writers such as Chekhov and Gorky. His first story was "Tamasha", based on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar. Though his earlier works, influenced by the progressive writers of his times, showed a marked leftist and socialist leanings, his later work progressively became stark in portraying the darkness of the human psyche, as humanist values progressively declined around the Partition. His final works, which grew from the social climate and his own financial struggles, reflected an innate sense of human impotency towards darkness and contained a satirism that verged on dark comedy, as seen in his final work, Toba Tek Singh.

Early life

Saadat Hassan Manto was born in Paproudi village of Samrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab in a Muslim family of barristers on 11 May 1912. His father was a judge of a local court. He was ethnically a Kashmiri and proud of his Kashmiri roots. In a letter to Pandit Nehru he suggested that being 'beautiful' was the second meaning of being 'Kashmiri'.

Death Info

Saadat Hasan Manto died on 18-01-1955 in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. He died at age of 42.