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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Khakan Sajid; a famous Urdu short Story writer and Novelist

Khakan Sajid (real name Muhammad Sajid) is an Urdu short story writer from Pakistan. His native town is Bhera, a historical place near Sargodha. He was born on February 15, 1965 at Wah, a small town near the capital city of Islamabad, where his father Mirza Muhammad Saleem served as Railways Station Master. He acquired his early education at Malikwal and Sargodha. Later he joined the Army as an officer and obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Telecommunications from MCS, a constituent college of NUST Islamabad.
Khakan Sajid began writing short stories during his school days. His first story was published in February 1983 in a popular Urdu short story magazine. His genres include romance, realism, mystery and horror, sometimes all mixed in a single work. His bestselling novel Champoon (2007) is the best example of his writing style. The author has also published a collection of horror stories titled Wahoosh (2006). A book containing his short stories has been published in 2008 under the title Adamzad. In addition to writing original stories he has translated literary works of various Nobel Laureates and renowned American, English, Russian and French short story writers, into the Urdu language. These translations have been published in four volumes. He also writes a column titled'Chae-pe-baat' in an Urdu Newspaper Roznama PAKISTAN. His other hobbies include painting, drawing cartoons, calligraphy and compering. Khakan Sajid is married and has two daughters. He resides in twin cities of Rawalpindi-Islamabad.

Khakan Sajid has Authored many books and a list of his books is given below:

(1) WAHOOSH [The Animals](Horror Stories)

(2) CHAMPOON[Flower](Novel)

(3) ADAMZAD[Sons of Adam](Short Stories)

(4) SHAHKAR AALMI AFSANAY(Translated Short Stories)

(5) YADGAR AFSANAY(Translated Short Stories)

(6) NOBEL INAM YAFTA MUSSANFEEN K BEHTREEN AFSANAY(Translated works of Nobel Laureates)

(7) NOBEL INAM YAFTA MUSSANFEEN K YADGAR AFSANAY (Translated works of Nobel Laureates)

3 comments:

  1. I have read CHAMPOON written by Khakan Sajid.It is really an amazing and very interesting story.After you start reading it,you realy can't place the book aside unless you completely finish it.Strongly recommended for those who want romance,mistry,horror and realism in a single book.

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  2. Dear, Khawar Mirza, Thanks for visiting Urduadab4u and comments. I have also read Champoona and soon I will post some details and download link for the book. That will make it easy to read the book for those who want to read it on computer screens.
    Thanks again for comments
    Dr. Israr

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  3. Dear Sir.
    Kindly share link of SHAHKAR AALMI AFSANAY(By: Khakan Sajid. I found it's link on Kitaabghar.net but there is a problem. We cannot download from there. I hope you will share it soon.

    You site is awesome. We can say it's a place of where we can find some best literature, novels, & Safar Namay as well......I hope you will continue your efforts and share more..........

    Farhan Aziz

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