Rahman Abbas
Rahman Abbas (born 30 January 1972) is an Indian fiction writer. He has twice won State Academy Awards for his two novels, first on 'Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God (2011) and again for Rohzin in 2017.
He is the only Indian novelist whose work in German language has received LitProm Grant funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss-South Cultural Fund. 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. In the twenty-first century Indian Urdu fiction, Rahman has emerged as the finest storyteller with great human sensibilities and seriousness.
He is the only Indian novelist whose work in German language has received LitProm Grant funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss-South Cultural Fund. 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. In the twenty-first century Indian Urdu fiction, Rahman has emerged as the finest storyteller with great human sensibilities and seriousness.
