Rahman Abbas (born 30 January 1972) is an Indian fiction writer and the winner of the India's highest literary Award Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Rohzin in 2018.
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His is also twice winner of the State Academy Awards for his third and fourth novels respectively i.e.
Hide and Seek in the Shadow of God (2011) and the Rohzin in 2017.
He is the only Indian novelist whose work in German has received a LitProm Grant funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Swiss-South Cultural Fund.
He writes in Urdu and in English.
Abbas has Master's Degrees in Urdu and English literature from Mumbai University.
His novels deal with themes of forbidden politics and love.Pakistani author Mustansar Hussain Tarar stated that Rahman's latest novel Rohzin is a fearless creative narration.
Professor Gopichand Narang, former president of Sahitya Academy, called Rohzin a turning point in the history of Urdu novels.