Famous People with Name Premchand

Munshi Premchand            Origin/Culture/Country: Indian

Munshi Premchand: was a writer of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. In India, he is generally recognized as the foremost writer in both Hindi and Urdu during the early twentieth century.While at Allahabad, Premchand's first novella, Asrar e Ma'abid (The Secrets of the Sanctum Sanctorum) was serialized in the Urdu weekly Awaz-e-Khalq (first publication date 8 October 1903),[2] but it was in Kanpur where his writing career really took off with his association with the Urdu magazine Zamana where he published a regular column, The March of Time, focusing on national and international affairs. In Kanpur, he became a part of the literary circle and gained a reputation as a journalist and writer with a social conscience. His second novel, also in Urdu, Kishna (1907) was written during this period (the text of this novel has nor survived).[3] He also published a collection of short stories in Urdu, Soz-e-vatan.