Synopsisअश्क एक प्रगतिशील यथार्थवादी लेखक थे जिनकी कहानियों में सचाई का बहुत ही दिल को छूने वाला वर्णन मिलता है। बीस साल की उम्र में उनकी कहानियों का पहला संग्रह प्रकाशित हुआ और उनकी दूसरी कहानी-संग्रह की भूमिका मुंशी प्रेमचन्द ने लिखी थी। अपने को लेखन में पूरी तरह समर्पित करने से पहले उन्होंने ऑल इंडिया रेडियो और अखबारों में पत्रकार के रूप में भी काम किया और कई हिन्दी फिल्मों की पटकथा और संवाद भी लिखे। कहानी, नाटक और कविता के अलावा उन्होंने संस्मरण भी लिखे। अश्क की कहानी ‘डाची’ हिन्दी और उर्दू लेखन में एक मील का पत्थर मानी जाती है।
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About the author
Upendranath Ashk, 1910-1996, was one of Hindi literature's best known and most controversial authors. Ashk was born in Jalandhar and spent the early part of his writing career as an Urdu author in Lahore. Encouraged by Premchand, he switched to Hindi, and a few years before Partition, moved to Bombay, Delhi and finally Allahabad in 1948, where he spent the rest of his life. By the time of his death, Ashk's phenomenally large oeuvre spanned over a hundred volumes of fiction, poetry, memoir, criticism and translation. Ashk is perhaps best known for his six-volume novel cycle, Girti Divarein, or 'Falling walls' ? an intensely detailed chronicle of the travails of a young Punjabi man attempting to become a writer?which has earned the author comparisons to Marcel Proust. Ashk was the recipient of numerous prizes and awards during his lifetime for his masterful portrayal, by turns humorous and remarkably profound, of the everyday lives of ordinary people.
