Agha Shahid Ali

Agha Shahid Ali
Born
Agha Shahid Ali

(1949-02-04)4 February 1949
New Delhi, India[1]
Died8 December 2001(2001-12-08) (aged 52)
Resting placeBridge Street Cemetery Northampton, Hampshire County, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Alma mater
Occupation(s)Poet, Professor
Known forNational Book Award 2001, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada (1996)
Notable credit(s)The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished and The Rebel's Silhouette
RelativesAgha Ashraf Ali (Father)
Prof. Agha Iqbal Ali (brother)
Prof. Hena Ahmad , Prof. Sameetah Agha (Sisters) Agha Shaukat Ali (Uncle) Begum Zaffar Ali (Grandmother)
AwardsPushcart Prize
Signature

Agha Shahid Ali Qizilbash (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born American poet.[1][2] Born into a Kashmiri Muslim family, Ali immigrated to the United States and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry.[3][4][5] His collections include A Walk Through the Yellow Pages, The Half-Inch Himalayas, A Nostalgist's Map of America, The Country Without a Post Office, and Rooms Are Never Finished, the latter a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001.

The University of Utah Press awards the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize annually in memory of this "celebrated poet and beloved teacher."[6]

  1. ^ a b Benvenuto, Christine (2002). "Agha Shahid Ali". The Massachusetts Review. 43 (2): 261–273. JSTOR 25091852. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022. He was born in New Delhi in 1949
  2. ^ "Agha Shahid Ali". Poetry Foundation.
  3. ^ "A Tribute to Agha Shahid Ali". Jacket Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  4. ^ An interethnic companion to Asian American literature. Cambridge University Press. 1997. ISBN 9780521447904. Retrieved 2 January 2010. Contemporary South Asian American writers belong primarily to this middle and upper class: Indo-American Agha Shahid Ali, Meena Alexander, Bharati Mukherjee, Vikram Seth, Pakistani American Sara Suleria, Javaid Qazi, Indo-Canadian Rohinton Mistry, Uma Parameswaran, Sri Lankan Canadian Michael Ondaatje, and Indo-Guyanese Canadian Cyril Dabydeen, among others.
  5. ^ Manan Kapoor, Sahapedia (12 May 2019). "How the legendary Begum Akhtar influenced the life and poetry of Agha Shahid Ali". Scroll.in. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  6. ^ "Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize". uofupress.com. Retrieved 18 January 2015.