Saadat Hasan Manto
11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955
Saadat Hasan Manto was an Urdu short-story writer, essayist and screenwriter active in Bombay and, after 1948, in Lahore. He is best known for stories about the partition of India, among them Toba Tek Singh and Khol Do, and for a body of work that was repeatedly prosecuted for obscenity. He died in Lahore in 1955 at the age of forty-two.
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Life events
He was born into a Kashmiri Muslim family in the Ludhiana district of British India.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe joined the university in 1934 but left after a short period because of illness.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe volume of short stories appeared in Lahore.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe edited film magazines and wrote screenplays for the Bombay studios.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple settled in Bombay and later had three daughters.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe wrote radio plays and sketches during a productive period in the capital.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe left Bombay for Pakistan, where he spent the remainder of his life.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIt was one of six obscenity trials he faced, three in British India and three in Pakistan.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe partition story, set in a Lahore asylum, became his best-known work.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe died of complications related to alcoholism at the age of forty-two.
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