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'''Naiyer Masud''' (1936 – 24 July 2017)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/naiyer-masud-who-metamorphosed-kafka-in-urdu-dies-at-81/articleshow/59746746.cms|title=Naiyer Masud, who metamorphosed Kafka in Urdu, dies at 81 - Times of India|publisher=}}</ref> was an [[India]]n [[Urdu]] scholar and [[Urdu literature#Short Story / Afsanah Nigari|short story]] writer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1347426|title=Prominent scholar Naiyer Masud passes away|first=The Newspaper's Staff|last=Reporter|date=25 July 2017|publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| author =Dawn Books And Authors| title =COLUMN: Naiyer Masud: "A passionate but calm realist of the strange" by Muhammad Umar Memon| newspaper =[[DAWN (newspaper)|DAWN]]| date =17 February 2013| url =http://www.dawn.com/news/786729/column-naiyer-masud-a-passionate-but-calm-realist-of-the-strange-by-muhammad-umar-memon| accessdate =7 February 2015| url-status =live| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20150207095145/http://www.dawn.com/news/786729/column-naiyer-masud-a-passionate-but-calm-realist-of-the-strange-by-muhammad-umar-memon| archivedate =7 February 2015| df =dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title =Naiyer Masud| newspaper =[[Penguin Books]] India| url =http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/naiyer-masud| accessdate =7 February 2015| url-status =live| archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20150207103854/http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/en/content/naiyer-masud| archivedate =7 February 2015| df =dmy-all}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
Masud was born in [[Lucknow]] and spent nearly all his life there, working until his retirement as a Professor of [[Persian language|Persian]] at [[Lucknow University]].

Masud was the son of [[Masud Hassan Rizvi]], also a Lucknow University Professor of Persian, a famed scholar of [[Urdu literature#Dastaan,.2F .28.D8.AF.D8.A7.D8.B3.D8.AA.D8.A7.D9.86.29|dastaan]] who was awarded the '[[Padma Shri]]' for 'Literature and Education' in 1970. He is the elder brother of the noted satirist [[Azhar Masud]].

==Career and honors==
Masud is the author of many scholarly books and translations (notably of [[Kafka]]), but is best known for his short stories, collected in the volumes [[Ganjifa]], [[Simiya]], [[Itr-e-kaafoor]], and [[Taoos Chaman Ki Myna]]. For the last, he was awarded the 2001 [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu|Urdu prize of the Sahitya Akademi]] and the [[Saraswati Samman]] in 2007.

He received the honor of being the subject of the entire 1997 issue of the [[Annual of Urdu Studies]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.urdustudies.com/Issue12/i12home.html |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-01-06 |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717175204/http://www.urdustudies.com/Issue12/i12home.html |archivedate=17 July 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

A large selection of his stories have been translated into English by [[Muhammad Umar Memon|M.U. Memon]] in the volumes ''[[The Snake Catcher]]'' and ''[[Essence of Camphor]]''.

==References==
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* [http://almostisland.com/monsoon_2018/pdf/a_taste_for_secrecy.pdf A Taste for Secrecy: Reading Naiyer Masud. Almost Island, 2018]
* [http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/12/04preface.pdf M.U. Memon, Naiyer Masud: A Prefatory Note]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120219193826/http://www.lkouniv.ac.in/dept_urdu.htm Lucknow University, Department of Urdu]

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