Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai PS
Born	(1915-08-21)21 August 1915 Budaun, United Provinces, British India
Died	24 October 1991(1991-10-24) (aged 76) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation	Writer filmmaker essayist
Language	Urdu
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Aligarh Muslim University
Genre	Short stories novel plays
Notable works	Works of Ismat Chughtai
Children	Seema Sawhny Sabrina Lateef

Ismat Chughtai (21 August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, liberal humanist and filmmaker. Beginning in the 1930s, she wrote extensively on themes including female sexuality and femininity, middle-class gentility, and class conflict, often from a Marxist perspective. With a style characterised by literary realism, Chughtai established herself as a significant voice in the Urdu literature of the twentieth century, and in 1976 was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India.