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Rahman Abbas (born 30 January 1972) is an Indian fiction writer. He writes in Urdu and English. Abbas has master's degrees in Urdu and English literature from Mumbai University. His novels deal with themes of forbidden politics and love.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Of forbidden politics and love )〕 Abbas's first Urdu novel, ''Nakhalistan Ki Talash'' (2004), written when he was 24, created a storm in conservative Urdu literary circles, and protests by religious conservatives forced him to resign from his post as lecturer in a junior college in the heart of Mumbai.〔 The novel tells the story of an young educated Muslim man whose increasing alienation in a post-1992 Mumbai leads him to a Kashmiri terrorist organization. He finds his cultural identity blurred during the rise of right-wing and hate-filled politics in India at the turn of the 21st century. He tries to demonstrate his identity and historic self, ultimately leading to his tragic and mysterious end.〔 〕 Abbas was arrested on charges of obscenity following the publication of this novel.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBCUrdu.com )〕 In his collection of literary essays, ''Ekkiswin Sadi Men Urdu Novel aur Digar Mazameen'' (Urdu Novel in Twenty First Century and Other Essay) he stated that as a young boy, he was influenced by the Modernist movement and wrote a few short stories which were published in the literary magazine ''Shabkhoon''. Later, reading Latin American, Western, and African novels, especially the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Victor Hugo, Milan Kundera, and Ben Okri, played a significant role in his formation as a novelist. He has discussed how this transformation took place in detail in debates about two of his novels, ''Ek Mamnua Muhabbat Ki Kahani'' and ''Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi'', held on Canada's Urdu TV channel, Rawal TV. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2011 for his third didactic novel ''Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi''. He returned the Award four years later along with two other awardees Nayantara Sahgal and Ashok Vajpeyi in protest of the governance of Narendra Modi. ==Works== * ''Nakhalistan Ki Talash'' 2004 * ''Ek Mamnua Muhabbat Ki Kahani'' (A Forbidden Love Story) 2009 * ''Khuda Ke Saaye Mein Ankh Micholi'' (Hide and Seek in the shadow of God) 2011 A trilogy of his early writing, entitled ''Teen Novels'' (ISBN 978-93-81029-29-9), was published in 2013 by Arshia Publication. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rahman Abbas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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