[Reader-list] Marquez novel in Urdu

[Yousuf]

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT

NEW MARQUEZ NOVEL PUBLISHED IN URDU

The latest novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and one of
the most widely read authors in the world today, makes
its appearance in an Urdu version. 

The first novel in ten years to appear from the pen of
this internationally acclaimed novelist, Memories of
My Melancholy Whores was eagerly awaited by readers
and critics alike. This novel has now been rendered 
into Urdu by Muhammad Umer Memon as Apni Sogwar
Beswaoon Ki Yadein and just published by Scheherzade,
Karachi, Pakistan.

Writer and scholar, Professor Muhammad Umar Memon is
associated with the University of Wisconsin, USA and
is the editor of the prestigious journal, The Annual
of Urdu Studies. With several books to his credit, is 
enowned for his translations of contemporary fiction
from Urdu as well as his rendition of contemporary
fiction into Urdu. His translations from writers like
Milan Kundera, Borges, Edward Said, Orhan Pamuk,
Simone de Beauvoir and others have led to the creation
of a new idiom in Urdu prose fiction and have set the
standard for translations of world literature. In
rendering the new Marquez into Urdu, he has been
particularly sensitive to the nuances of the
novelist’s style, his lyrical sensuousness and the
richness of physical details.

This book launches the Classics Series from by
Scheherzade, a non-profit organization devoted to
publishing and the promotion of book culture, 
which also brings out the book series "Duniyazad".
This series will comprise of new translations by some
of the leading writers and translators including
Professor Muhammad Umar Memon, Fahmida Riaz and
others, and it is aimed at widening the horizons of
the Urdu readership by making available the world
classics, ancient as well as contemporary, through 
quality translations. The forthcoming titles in the
series include the work of Maulana Jalal uddin 
Rumi, Milan Kundera, Naguib Mehfouz among others.


FOR FURTHER DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT
                                                  
info at scheherzade.com                                  
asiffarrukhi at hotmail.com




 
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