Hasan Manzar is the pen name of Syed Manzar Hasan. He is doctor by profession, and is settled in Hyderabad, in Pakistan where he runs a private Psychiatrist Clinic he has published several collection of short stories.

In an interview aired by the voice of America in 1995 Hasan Manzar remarked, My stories are inspired by individuals- ordinary men and women affected by some sorrow, happiness, or longing. When I encounter them, they, as well as the environment in which the reality is embedded, become part of my thinking.

Such Individuals are not imagined beings. I guess what I am trying to say is that I'm as far away as anyone can get from any kind of romanticism. Subjects, Unless they are firmly grounded in objective reality, leave me cold, and I almost never feel motivated to probe them in my fictions. What moves me, instead are real, flesh-and-blood people, victims of oppression and violence, scared by pain and injustice.

And it does not matter where they come from.

The fact that Hasan Manzar must resemble Prem Chand in his concern for the disenfranchised and disinherited is in disputable. Nonetheless his concern is more wide-ranging then Prem Chand's is not restricated by geographical boundaries.

Syed Manzar Hasan, Whose signs his creative work as Hasan Manzar, was born on 4^th march 1934 in Hapur, A town in the district of Meerut (U.P., India). His father's maternal grandfather has participated in the 1857's war of independence and also angered the British that they put a prize on his head. He consequently escaped to the foothills of the Himalayas and spends the remaining years of his life in hiding. Hasan Manzar spent his childhood in Muradabad, a place famous for his copper work. There were many factories and the workers, once a week holds a mushai'rra is one of the rooms, leisurely eating some sweet meat and puffing on their huqqas. Hasan Manzar, Against his father's wishes was admitted in a school where pupils were made to sit on the coarse rush mats. He despite the school and started skipping classes, roaming around in the factory area and the towns crowded side streets observing rather than studying books which' only made father taunt my mother, "I told you didn’t I? What else did you expect?"

Hasan Manzar was later admitted Hewett Muslim High School, which is located on the bank of Ram Ganga. Across from the school was the small end Dingy train station of KatGhar, and beyond it farm fields and forests, he remarks: I Have Always Found The rural life more appealing than the city life.

Hasan Manzar graduated from the high school in Lahore. And studied for the next three years first at Foremen Christian College and then at Islamiya College. Subsequently he enrolled in King Edward Medical College and earned a degree in medicine. He moved to Karachi and took a job in a hospital. Subsequently he worked as a Surgeon on a Dutch Merchant Ship and as in-charge of a Hospital, which specialized in epidemic disease. His next employment was as junior obstetrician and Gynecologist in Saudi Arabian Hospital. The training he got here benefited him a great deal, when he later worked in Bush, Africa. His fascination with the open life of the wilderness continued even in the Junglees and Bush country of Africa of which he has visited many countries. This itinerant existence has given him this wonderful Ability for his higher studies; he went To Scotland earning two separate postgraduate degrees in psychiatry, From Edinburgh. But he didn’t returned to pakistan when done, instead he went to Malaysia felling love with it s red earth he taught in the department of psychological medicine at Kuala Lumpur, and also carried his Medical research, then he returned to pakistan, where he didn’t settled in Karachi but Once again choose a city which was considerably smaller, and was in the close vicinity of jungles and agricultural fields he said " I have been writing all along and have had too abundant a goodly number of stories half finished because of the demands of my profession which often leaves me little or no time.