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| name = Altaf Fatima<br />
| native_name = الطاف فاطمہ<br />
| native_name_lang = ur<br />
| image = Altaf Fatima.jpg<br />
| birth_date = 10 June 1927<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1448472/writer-altaf-fatima-passes-away|title=Writer Altaf Fatima passes away|first=The Newspaper's Staff|last=Reporter|date=30 November 2018|publisher=}}</ref><br />
| birth_place = [[Lucknow]], [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = 29 November 2018 <br>(aged 91)<br />
| death_place = [[Lahore]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], [[Pakistan]]<br />
| occupation = [[Academic]], [[novelist]]<br />
| nationality = Pakistani<br />
| relations = [[Syed Shahid Hamid]] [[Syed Rafiq Husain]] [[Nishat Fatima]] [[Fazal Qadeer]]<br />
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'''Altaf Fatima''' ({{lang-ur|الطاف فاطمہ}}; 10 June 1927 – 29 November 2018) was a [[Pakistani]] [[Urdu]] novelist, short story writer, and teacher (specializing in [[Muhammad Iqbal]]). Altaf Fatima was born in [[Lucknow]], she moved to [[Lahore]] during the [[Partition of India|Partition]], earning [[Master of Arts|MA]] and [[BEd]] from the [[University of Punjab]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/contributor/altaf-fatima|title=Contributor Altaf Fatima|website=Words Without Borders}}</ref> Her novel ''Dastak Na Do'' ("Do not Knock") is regarded as one of the defining works in the [[Urdu]] language. An adaptation was presented on Pakistan television and an abridged translation was serialised by the Karachi monthly, ''Herald''. In 2018, Fatima received the KLF Urdu Literature award at the 9th [[Karachi Literature Festival]] for her book, Deed Wadeed.<ref>{{cite news |title=Live Updates from Karachi Literature Festival |url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2018/02/live-updates-karachi-literature-festival/ |work=Samaa TV |date=February 9, 2018}}</ref> She died on 29 November 2018.<ref name="auto"/><br />
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==Works==<br />
'''Novels'''<br />
* ''Nishaan-i-Mehfil'' (1975)<br />
* ''[[Dastak Naa Do]]'' (1964) (''The One Who Did Not Ask'' (Novel) English translation published by [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] in 1994) <br />
* ''Chalta Musafir'' (1980)<br />
* ''Khwabgar'' (2008)<br />
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'''Collection of Short Stories'''<br />
* ''Woh Jissay chaha gaya''(1969)<br />
* ''Jab Deewarein Girya Karti Hain (1988)''<br />
* ''Taar-i-Ankaboot (1990)''<br />
* ''Deed Wadeed'' (2017)<br />
* ''Gawahi Akhir e Shab Ki'' (2018)<br />
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'''Translations'''<br />
* ''Naghmay ka Qatal'' (Urdu Translation of [[Harper Lee]]'s novel ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2657.To_Kill_a_Mockingbird|title=To Kill a Mockingbird|website=www.goodreads.com}}</ref><br />
* ''Mere Bachay Meri Daulat'' (Urdu Translation of My Children, My Gold by Debbie Taylor)<br />
* ''Barrey Aadmi, Aur Unke Nazariyat''. A collection of political essays<br />
* ''Moti''. Urdu Translation of ''[[The Pearl (novel)|The Pearl]]'' by [[John Steinbeck]]<br />
* ''Sach Kahaniyan'' (2000) (Urdu translation of Truth Tales i.e. Gujrati, Marathi, Tamil and Hindi Short Stories)<br />
* ''Zaitoon ke Jhund'' (2016) (Urdu translation of Santa Claus in Baghdad by Elsa Marston)<br />
* ''Japani Afsana Nigar Khawateen'' (1994) (Urdu translation of collection of Japanese short stories )<br />
* ''Haveli ke Ander''. (Urdu translation of ''[[Inside the Haveli]]'' by [[Rama Mehta]])<br />
* Urdu translation of collection of South American short stories<br />
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'''Tanqeed'''<br />
* ''Urdu Adab Mein Fann e Sawaneh Nigari ka Irtiqa'' (1961)<br />
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'''General'''<br />
* ''Rozmarra Aadaab'' (1963)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==See also==<br />
{{portal|Novels}}<br />
*[[List of Pakistani writers]]<br />
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[[Category:1927 births]]<br />
[[Category:2018 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Muhajir people]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani women novelists]]<br />
[[Category:Pakistani novelists]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Pakistani women writers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Pakistani writers]]<br />
[[Category:Urdu-language novelists]]<br />
[[Category:Women writers from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Lahore]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Lucknow]]<br />
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