Aangan (novel)

Aangan
Front cover of the 2018 English version
AuthorKhadija Mastoor
Original titleآنگن
TranslatorNeelam Hussain
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu
Genres
Set inBritish India and Pakistan in the 1940s
PublisherKitab Numa (Kitāb Numā)
Publication date
1962
Published in English
2000
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages488 (first edition)
AwardAdamjee Literary Award 1963
ISBN9693505611 (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1995)
OCLC46849662
891.439371
LC ClassPK2200.K394 A83 1962

Aangan (Urdu: آنگن, romanizedĀṅgan, lit.'courtyard'), alternatively spelled Angan, is a period novel by Pakistani novelist and short story writer Khadija Mastoor. Published in 1962, it is hailed as a masterpiece of Urdu literature. It won Mastoor the 1963 Adamjee Literary Award for Urdu prose and has been translated into 13 languages. English translations of the novel by Daisy Rockwell titled Inner Courtyard and The Women's Courtyard were published in 2000 and 2018, respectively. A Pakistani TV series adaptation of the novel starring Mawra Hocane, Ahad Raza Mir, Ahsan Khan and Sajal Aly was aired on Hum TV from 2018 to 2019. Renewed interest in the novel caused it to become the number one bestseller in the country in 2019.

Adaptations

A Pakistani TV series adaptation of the novel starring Mawra Hocane, Ahad Raza Mir, Ahsan Khan and Sajal Aly was aired on Hum TV from 2018 to 2019.

In India, a show of the same name based on the novel was created by DD Urdu and aired in mid 2018.

See also