HYDERABAD, Oct 11: Sindh-born eminent writer and poet Krishan Khatwani died of kidney failure in a hospital in Indore, India, on Thursday. He was 80.

His son Dr. Moti Parkash informed his father’s colleagues and friends in Sindh on phone that his father died at 11.00 a.m a few days after he was admitted to hospital for acute kidney pain.

Krishan Khatwani was born in Tharoo Shah, a town in Naushahro Feroze district of Sindh, on Nov 7, 1927.

Krishan Khatwani obtained early education in Karachi and, after migrating to India with his family in the wake 1947 partition of the sub-continent, graduated from Indore University of India.

He has to his credit 21 books including eight anthologies of short stories, seven novels, a collection of poems and a play. Some of books have been included in the curicula of the Mumbai University and colleges in Pune. Four of his books have been translated into Hindi from Sindhi.

Krishan Khatwani had also served as representative of Sindhi language on Sahtia Academy of Madhya Pradesh.

Sobho Gianchandani and Ibrahim Joyo, who are among his childhood friends, Taj Joyo, Abdul Wahid Arisar, Professor Liaquat Aziz Solangi and other Sindhi writers have expressed deep over Krishan Khatwani’s death and condoled with his family.—PPI