About Razia Sajjad Zaheer
Razia Sajjad Zaheer was a novelist, short-story writer and translator born in Ajmer in 1917. She won the Nehru Award in 1966. She contributed short stories to eminent journals like Phool, Tehzib-e-Nisvaan and Ismat from childhood on. Her other works include the Urdu novels Allah Megh De, reissue 2011; Sar-e-Shaam, 1953; Kaante, 1954 and Suman, 1963; the short-story collections Zard Gulaab, 1981 and Allah De Banda Le, 1984 and the children’s books Nehru ka Bhateeja, 1954 and Sultan Zainul Abidin Budshah,1973. She passed away in 1979.
