Qurratulain Hyder is one of the most celebrated and accomplished writers of Urdu fiction. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1968 for the collection of her stories titles "Patjhar ki Awaz" (The Sound of Falling Leaves). Some of these stories present the disorientation of an entire generation as a result of the vivisection of the country, and the existential angst of the rootless. She can create multiple voices and present a "magical" mix of docudrama and fiction.