Agha Shahid Ali
| Agha Shahid Ali | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 4, 1949 Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir |
| Died | December 8, 2001 (aged 52) |
| Resting place | Amherst, Massachusetts |
| Alma mater | University of Kashmir Hindu College, University of Delhi Pennsylvania State University (Phd) and University of Arizona (MFA) |
| Occupation | Poet, Professor |
| Known for | National Book Award 2001 ,Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada |
| Notable credit(s) | The Country Without a Post Office, Rooms Are Never Finished and The Rebel's Silhouette |
| Relatives | Agha Ashraf Ali Agha Iqbal Ali Prof. Henna Ahmad |
Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was a Kashmiri poet. 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, 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 a celebrated poet and beloved teacher".
Agha Shahid Ali was born in Srinagar, India. He was raised in Kashmir but left for the United States in 1976. Shahid's father Agha Ashraf Ali is a renowned educationist of Jammu and Kashmir. Shahid's grandmother Begum Zafar Ali an educationist, was the first woman matriculate of Kashmir. Shahid was educated at the Burn Hall School, later University of Kashmir and the Hindu College, University of Delhi. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Pennsylvania State University in 1984, and an M.F.A. from the University of Arizona in 1985. He held teaching positions at nine universities and colleges in India and the United States.
Ali expressed his love and concern for his people in In Memory of Begum Akhtar and The Country Without a Post Office, which was written with the Kashmir conflict as backdrop. He was a translator of the Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz (The Rebel's Silhouette; Selected Poems), and the editor for the Middle East and Central Asia segment of Jeffery Paine's Poetry of Our World.
He compiled the volume Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English. His last book was Call Me Ishmael Tonight, a collection of English ghazals, and his poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and other anthologies. Ghat of the only world written by Amitav Ghosh is a tribute of friend to Agha Shahid Ali. Ali was the close friend of Amitav Ghosh.
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