KARACHI: Acclaimed Sindhi language novelist, story-writer, scholar, journalist, historian and literary researcher and linguist, Siraj ul-Haq Memon, died of cardiac arrest in a private hospital of Karachi in the wee hours of Saturday.
Memon was admitted to the National Medical Center a few days ago. He was 79.
Siraj Memon was born in Tando Jam town, Hyderabad district to school-teacher and poet Mohammad Yaqub ‘Niaz’ on October 24, 1933, in a house of six siblings.
After completion of his early education, his family shifted from his native town to Hyderabad where he later started his career as a lawyer. Later, after passing the Pakistan Public Service Commission examinations in the early 1960s, he joined the Income Tax department.
Siraj Memon wrote a total of five novels, but three of his novels – Parrado Soyoi Sadd (The Echo and the Call are the Same), Maran Moun Se Aa (Come die with me) and Tunhji Dunya Sabh Rang Sanwal (Your Life has all the Colours) – are considered to be some of the most widely acclaimed novels in Sindhi literature.
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