Sang-e-Meel Publications is a
Lahore
Lahore ( ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, second-largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and ...
-based publishing house that was established in 1962 in
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
. It has to its credit of being the foremost publisher of Urdu books after the
partition of India
The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Dominion of India, Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Paki ...
in 1947. Apart from publishing numerous new titles, it is also credited with publication of old Urdu titles and classic and rare books.
It has to its credit the publication of books of famous writers like:
Ashfaq Ahmed
Ashfaq Ahmed (; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster. His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan. H ...
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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Chaudhry Faiz Ahmad Faiz (13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984) was a Pakistani poet and author of Punjabi and Urdu literature. Faiz was one of the most celebrated, popular, and influential Urdu writers of his time, and his works and ideas r ...
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Raza Ali Abidi
Raza Ali Abidi (; born 30 November 1935) is a Pakistani journalist and broadcaster best known for his radio documentaries on the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan (also known as Sher Shah Suri Marg in India) and his travelogue along the banks of the ...
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Mustansar Hussain Tarar
Mustansar Hussain Tarar (; ) Sitara-i-Imtiaz, S.I. (born 1 March 1939) is a Pakistani author, travel enthusiast, mountaineer, writer, novelist, columnist, TV host and former actor.
Early life
Mustansar Hussain Tarar was born in Jokalian on 1 M ...
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Saadat Hasan Manto
Saadat Hasan Manto (; Punjabi, , , ; 11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and author who was active in British India and later, after the 1947 partition of India, in Pakistan.
Writing mainly in Urdu, he produc ...
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Razia Butt
Razia Butt () was an Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. One of the famous popular fiction writer of the 1960s and 1970s, she is often compared with English writer Barbara Cartland due to her popularity among the household readers.
Some ...
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Intizar Hussain
Intizar Hussain or Intezar Hussain (; 21 December 1925 – 2 February 2016) was a Pakistani writer of Urdu novels, short stories, poetry and nonfiction. He is widely recognised as a leading literary figure of Pakistan.
He was nominated for the ...
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Qudratullah Shahab,
Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai,
Qurat-ul-Ain Haider and many more.
See also
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Ferozsons
Ferozsons (Pvt) Limited (also Ferozsons Publishers) () is a Pakistani publishing company in Lahore, Pakistan. Established in 1894, it is Pakistan’s oldest publishing house.
In 1954, the Ferozsons Business Group expanded when one of the famil ...
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List of Urdu language book publishing companies
This list containing all the companies who publish the books and magazines in Urdu language.
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* Calcutta School-Book Society, India
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* Ferozsons, Pakistan, founded 1894
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* India Book House, India
* Islamic Publishing House, India
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