Alamgir Hashmi

عالمگیر اورنگزیب ہاشمی

(1951-11-15) 15 November 1951
Lahore, Pakistan

Poet and writer in English language

University of Louisville, Kentucky
University of the Punjab

Rockefeller Fellow

Beatrice Stork

Career[edit]

He was a practicing transnational humanist and educator in North American, European and Asian universities.[3][5] He argued for a "comparative" aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms. He showed and advocated new paths of reading the classical and modern texts and emphasized the sublime nature, position and pleasures of language arts to be shared, rejecting their reduction to social or professional utilities. He produced many books of seminal literary and critical importance as well as series of lectures and essays (such as "Modern Letters") in the general press.[6][7]

Education[edit]

Hashmi earned an M.A. degree at the University of the Punjab, Lahore (1972) and another M.A. degree at the University of Louisville, Kentucky (1977).[4]

The Oath and Amen: Love Poems Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1976.[7]

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America Is a Punjabi Word. Lahore, Karakorum Range, 1979.[7]

[4]

An Old Chair. Bristol, Xenia Press, 1979.

My Second in Kentucky. Lahore, Vision Press, 1981.[7]

[4]

This Time in Lahore. Lahore, Vision Press, 1983.

Neither This Time/Nor That Place. Lahore, Vision Press, 1984.[7]

[4]

Inland and Other Poems. Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1984.

The Poems of Alamgir Hashmi. Islamabad, National Book Foundation, 1992.

[4]

Sun and Moon and Other Poems. Islamabad, Indus Books, 1992.

A Choice of Hashmi's Verse. Karachi and New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.

[4]

Pakistani Short Stories in English

[7]

Postindependence Voices in South Asian Writings

The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World

[7]

The Worlds of Muslim Imagination

Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter Culture

Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers

[7]

Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-Definition of a Popular/Counter Culture. Lahore, Vision Press, 1983

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The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World. Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1988

Editor, Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers. New York, World University Service, 2 vols., 1978; revised edition, Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, I vol., 1987

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Editor, with Les Harrop and others, Ezra Pound in Melbourne. Ivanhoe, Australia, Helix, 1983

Editor, The Worlds of Muslim Imagination. Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1986

[7]

Editor, Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London, Routledge, 1994

Member of the 1996 jury for the (American Literary Award)[6]

Neustadt International Prize for Literature

Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose (New Rivers Press, 2021)

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The University of the Punjab (Lahore) Scholar, 1970–72, and Certificate of Academic Merit, 1973; first prize

[4]

All-Pakistan Creative Writing Contest, 1972[4]

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Patras Bokhari award, 1985[3][4]

Pakistan Academy of Letters

1994[4]

Rockefeller Fellow

Roberto Celli Memorial award (Italy), 1994

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D.Litt.: University of Luxembourg, 1984

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San Francisco State University, 1984

List of Pakistani writers