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 A. Hameed, in the Lahore of the 1950's
A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man!

A. Hameed, 2nd from left with Munir Niazi on extreme right in the Lahore of the 1950's

A. Hameed, extreme right, with Munir Niazi on extreme left in the Lahore of the 1980's

A. Hameed (1928-2011) was born in Amritsar, British India.  At the time of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he migrated with his family to Lahore where he joined Radio Pakistan as a Script Writer.  He started writing Urdu short stories in 1948. HIs contemporaries included Ashfaq Ahmad, Intizar Husain, Saadat Hasan Manto and Mumtaz Mufti.

His style combined realism with romanticism and this prompted Krishan Chander, a leading Urdu short story writer  of the time,  to make the comment that A. Hameed writes with the stem of a rose.

A. Hameed, whose realist genre Urdu novel "Darbay" published in 1950 made a great impression on me during my formative years in Lahore, was also my eldest maternal Uncle or my Maamoon Jaan.
I have described my impressions and memories of A. Hameed in a post on my Blog:
http://naee-manzil-naee-raahein.blogspot.ca/2011/05/urdu-novelist-hameed-passes-away.html.

A. Hameed’s Novels, Short Story Collections and Travelogues available online via Sang-e-Meel Publications   
(www.sang-e-meel.com ) :

BARISH MAIN JUDAI
by A HAMEED
price: RS250.00
year of publication: 2006 Publisher: SMP
subject: NOVEL
ISBN: 9693502396

BARISH SAMAWAR KHUSHBOO
by A HAMEED
price: RS250.00
year of publication: 2008 Publisher: MAQBOOL
subject: AFSANAY
ISBN: 6422

KHIZAAN KA GEET
by A HAMEED
price: RS99.00
year of publication: 1999 Publisher: SMP
subject: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 9693505026

TOOFAN KI RAAT
by A HAMEED
price: RS150.00
year of publication: 2005 Publisher: SMP
subject: NOVEL
ISBN: 9693501179

KUTCHH YAADAIN KUTCHH AANSOO
by A HAMEED
price: RS150.00
year of publication: 2000 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693505034

LAHORE KI YADAIN ^
by A HAMEED
price: RS450.00
year of publication: 2010 Publisher: SMP
subject: HISTORY
ISBN: 9693501926

LAHORE LAHORE AYE .
by A HAMEED
price: RS695.00
year of publication: 2008 Publisher: VANGUARD
subject: HISTORY
ISBN: 9694025117

MAJMUA A HAMEED : MANZIL MANZIL ETC ^
by A HAMEED
price: RS900.00
year of publication: 2009 Publisher: SMP
subject: SHORT STORIES
ISBN: 9693522680

MANZIL MANZIL
by A HAMEED
price: RS120.00
year of publication: 1996 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693505018

PEELA UDAS CHAND
by A HAMEED
price: RS100.00
year of publication: 2003 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693501373

PEEPAL WALI GALEE
by A HAMEED
price: RS110.00
year of publication: 2003 Publisher: SMP
subject: NOVEL
ISBN: 9693515153

PHOOL GIRTAY HAIN
by A HAMEED
price: RS125.00
year of publication: 2003 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693501160

QISSA AKHRI DERVAISH KA
by A HAMEED
price: RS210.00
year of publication: 2000 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693501101

SAHRA KA BADIL
by A HAMEED
price: RS100.00
year of publication: 1991 Publisher: FEROZ SONS
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9690009478

VIRAN GALI MAIN LARKI
by A HAMEED
price: RS99.00
year of publication: 1998 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693501233

YADAIN (NAWAN LAHORE,PURANA LAHORE) ^
by A HAMEED
price: RS99.00
year of publication: 1994 Publisher: SMP
subject: HISTORY
ISBN: 9693502426

NARIAL KA PHOOL
by A HAMEED
price: RS150.00
year of publication: 2005 Publisher: SMP
subject: NOVEL
ISBN: 9693517164

MATTI KI MOONA LIZA
by A HAMEED
price: RS150.00
year of publication: 1998 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 969350500X

MEIN TUJHEY KAISSAY BHULA DOON
by A HAMEED
price: RS250.00
year of publication: 2008 Publisher: MAQBOOL
subject: BIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 28000

AUR CHANAAR JALTAY RAHAY
by A HAMEED
price: RS180.00
year of publication: 2002 Publisher: SMP
subject: KASHMIR
ISBN: 9693513460

BAHAR KA AKHRI PHOOL
by A HAMEED
price: RS375.00
year of publication: 2003 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693500466

PEEPAL WALI GALI
by A HAMEED
price: RS75.00
year of publication: 1992 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 9693501381

KHANA BADOSH AMRIKI HASEENA
by A HAMEED
price: RS175.00
year of publication: 1998 Publisher: ALFAISAL
subject: SAFARNAMA
ISBN: 11232

DASTAN GO:ASHFAQ AHMAD
by A HAMEED
price: RS225.00
year of publication: 2004 Publisher: SMP
subject: URDU ADAB
ISBN: 969350660X

ZAHEER KASHMIRI SHAKHSIAT AUR FAN
by A HAMEED
price: RS95.00
year of publication: 1998 Publisher: AKADMI ADBIAT
subject: BIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 9694721148

AMERICANO
by A HAMEED
price: RS450.00
year of publication: 2003 Publisher: SMP
subject: SAFAR NAMA
ISBN: 9693515145



A. Hameed (1928-2011)

Urdu Novelist, Short Story Writer, Columnist, Travelogue Writer and Author of Children's Books as well as the Pakistan TV Children's Drama Serial ''Ainak Waalaa Jinn''