Bridge Street Cemetery Northampton, Hampshire County, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Alma mater
University of Kashmir
University of Delhi
University of Arizona (MFA)
Pennsylvania State University (PhD)
Occupation(s)
Poet, Professor
Known for
National 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
Relatives
Agha Ashraf Ali (Father) Prof. Agha Iqbal Ali (brother) Prof. Hena Ahmad , Prof. Sameetah Agha (Sisters)
Agha Shaukat Ali (Uncle) Begum Zaffar Ali (Grandmother)
Awards
Pushcart Prize
Signature
Agha Shahid Ali Qizilbash (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-American[1] poet who immigrated to the United States[2][3][4] and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. 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."[5]
^ abBenvenuto, 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
^"A Tribute to Agha Shahid Ali". Jacket Magazine. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
^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: Kashmiri-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.
^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.
^"Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize". uofupress.com. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
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nor are they a Western poetic form. A she'r will often contains what AghaShahidAli described as "voltas" or "turns" from the first misra (line) to the...
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in which he died(Shahid). The event gave rise to the Zaydiyya sect of Shia Islam, which holds him as the next Imam after his father Ali ibn al-Husayn Zayn...
University of Utah Press. 2011-06-29. "AghaShahidAli Poetry Prize". Poets & Writers. Retrieved 2011-07-05. "AghaShahidAli Poetry Prize". University of Utah...
AghaShahidAli's poetry to be removed from curriculum at KU". The Kashmiriyat. Retrieved 2023-07-20. News Desk (2023-07-19). "Curfewed Night, Agha Shahid...
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Swirl (2003), was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. She won the AghaShahidAli Award for Descartes' Nightmare in 2007, selected by Cole Swensen, and...
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AghaAli Abbas Qizilbash (also known as Agha Talish, Urdu: آغا طالِش) (13 November 1923 – 19 February 1998) was a Pakistani actor who made his debut in...
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Poetry Sarah Maguire Prize T. S. Eliot Prize Welsh Poetry Competition AghaShahidAli Poetry Prize – awarded annually in memory of this celebrated poet,...
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