Jamila Hashmi

Jamila Hashmi (1929/1934 – 1988) was a Pakistani novelist and short story writer. She produced her work in Urdu. She wrote her first novel titled Attish-e-Rufta which was introduced to a TV serial. She later wrote Talash-e-Baharan, a novel that later became the recipient of Adamjee Literary Award. She also wrote short stories such as her Rang Bhoom, and Aap Bieti-Jug Bieti besides writing novels such as Apna Apna Jahanum and a narrative prose fiction titled Rohi.[1]

She was born in 1934 in Amritsar, British India. Some argue that she was born in 1929. After partition of the subcontinent, she migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and settled in Sahiwal, however she moved to Lahore where she obtained a master's degree in English literature from Forman Christian College. She married Sardar Ahmed Awaisi[1] with whom she has a daughter, Ayesha Siddiqa.[2]