Saadat Hasan Manto Bio
Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hassan Manto (May 11, 1912 – January 18, 1955) was a short story writer of the Urdu language. He is best known for his short stories, 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.[
Manto was tried for obscenity six times, thrice before 1947 and thrice after 1947 in Pakistan, but never convicted. Some of his works have been translated in other languages.