Alamgir Aurangzeb Hashmi (born 15 November 1951) is an

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of Pakistani origin. Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical acclaim. He is widely published in the

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Career

He was a practicing transnational

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in North American, European and Asian universities. He has argued for a "comparative" aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms. He showed and advocated new paths of

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the classical and modern texts and emphasized the sublime nature, position and pleasures of

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to be shared, rejecting their reduction to

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. He has 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.

Education

Hashmi earned an M.A. degree at the

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, Lahore (1972) and another M.A. degree at the

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, Kentucky (1977).

Poetry

* ''The Oath and Amen: Love Poems'' Philadelphia, Dorrance, 1976. * ''America Is a Punjabi Word.'' Lahore, Karakorum Range, 1979. * ''An Old Chair.'' Bristol, Xenia Press, 1979. * ''My Second in Kentucky.'' Lahore, Vision Press, 1981. * ''This Time in Lahore.'' Lahore, Vision Press, 1983. * ''Neither This Time/Nor That Place.'' Lahore, Vision Press, 1984. * ''Inland and Other Poems.'' Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1984. * ''The Poems of Alamgir Hashmi.'' Islamabad, National Book Foundation, 1992. * ''Sun and Moon and Other Poems.'' Islamabad, Indus Books, 1992. * ''A Choice of Hashmi's Verse.'' Karachi and New York, Oxford University Press, 1997.

Literary Criticism and Scholarly Editions

* Pakistani Short Stories in English * Postindependence Voices in South Asian Writings * The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World * The Worlds of Muslim Imagination * Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter Culture * Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers

Others

* ''Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-Definition of a Popular/Counter Culture.'' Lahore, Vision Press, 1983 * ''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 * Editor, with Les Harrop and others, ''Ezra Pound in Melbourne.'' Ivanhoe, Australia, Helix, 1983 * Editor, ''The Worlds of Muslim Imagination.'' Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1986 * Editor, ''Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English.'' London, Routledge, 1994 * Member of the 1996 jury for the

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(American Literary Award) * ''Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose'' (New Rivers Press, 2021)

Awards

* The University of the Punjab (Lahore) Scholar, 1970–72, and Certificate of Academic Merit, 1973; first prize * All-Pakistan Creative Writing Contest, 1972 * Pakistan Academy of Letters, Patras Bokhari award, 1985 * Rockefeller Fellow, 1994 * Roberto Celli Memorial award (Italy), 1994 * D.Litt.: University of Luxembourg, 1984 * San Francisco State University, 1984

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hashmi, Alamgir 1951 births Living people British writers Pakistani male poets English-language poets from Pakistan Pakistani literary critics English literary critics American academics American male poets Pakistani writers Place of birth missing (living people) Writers from Lahore Rockefeller Fellows University of the Punjab alumni University of Louisville alumni