ISLAMABAD: The 58th death anniversary of Saadat Hasan Manto will be observed with reverence on Friday.
Saadat Hasan Manto was a short story writer of the Urdu language. Manto was also a film and radio scriptwriter, and a journalist.
Saadat Manto was a writer who not only enriched Urdu literature to a great extent, but influenced writers to look into the psyche of mankind.
He wrote more than 250 short stories, a novel, 5 collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, two collections of personal sketches.
Some of Manto's works have been translated in other languages as well.
He was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, "Bu" (Odour), "Khol Do" (Open It), "Thanda Gosht" (Cold Meat), and his magnum opus, "Toba Tek Singh".
Manto was also a film and radio scriptwriter and a journalist. He published twenty-two collections of short stories, one novel, five collections of radio plays, three collections of essays, and two collections of personal sketches.
Saadat Hassan Manto was born in Paproudi village of Samrala, in the Ludhiana district of the Punjab in a Kashmiri Muslim family of barristers on 11 May 1912.
Manto also tried his hand at newspaper column writing. He started off with writing under the title Chashm-e-Rozan for daily Maghribi Pakistan on the insistence of his friends of Bombay days, Ehsan Ba and Murtaza Jillani, who were editing that paper.
He died at the age of 42.
On January 18, 2005, the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Manto was commemorated on a Pakistani postage stamp.
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