Editing Alamgir Hashmi

{{short description|Anglo-Pakistani poet (born 1951)}}
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| name        = Alamgir Hashmi
| image       = 
| caption     = 
| birth_date  = {{Birth date and age|1951|11|15|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Lahore, Pakistan]]
| awards     = [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller Fellow]]
| occupation  = [[Poet]] and writer in English language
| education   =[[University of Louisville]], Kentucky<br/>[[University of the Punjab]]
| spouse      =Beatrice Stork
| website     = {{URL|https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hashmi-aurangzeb-alamgir}}
| native_name = عالمگیر اورنگزیب ہاشمی
}}

'''Alamgir Aurangzeb Hashmi'''{{Efn|{{langx|ur|عالمگیر اورنگزیب ہاشمی}}}} (born 15 November 1951) is an [[English language]] [[poet]] and [[writer]] of Pakistani origin.<ref name="Roberts2008">{{cite book|author=Neil Roberts|title=A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry (pages 275, 279, 616)|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=Zdft6vWm8T0C}}|date=15 April 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-99866-3}}</ref>

Considered avant-garde, his early and later works were published to considerable critical acclaim. He is widely published in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Australia]], [[India]], [[Canada]], [[New Zealand]] and the [[United States]].<ref name="Raza2011">{{cite book|author=Amra Raza|title=Spatial Constructs in Alamgir Hashmi's Poetry: A Critical Study|url={{google books |plainurl=y |id=VmbCZwEACAAJ&dq}}|date=12 April 2011|publisher=Lap Lambert|isbn=978-3-844-32294-1}}</ref><ref name=uoi/><ref name=encyclopedia/>

==Career==
He was a practicing transnational [[Humanism|humanist]] and [[educator]] in North American, European and Asian universities.<ref name=uoi>{{cite web |url=http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2004/october/101904hashmi.html |title=Pakistani Poet, Scholar Hashmi To Read at IWP Oct. 29 (International Writing Program) (IWP)|publisher= The University of Iowa|date=2004-10-19 |access-date=2024-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514024309/http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2004/october/101904hashmi.html|archive-date=14 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alamgir Hashmi |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095923705?d=%2F10.1093%2Foi%2Fauthority.20110803095923705&p=emailAeSAq0QKMUf3A |access-date=2024-04-30 |website=The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English (1 ed.) |language=en |first=Shaista |last=Sonnu |date=1996 |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> He has argued for a "comparative" aesthetic to foster humane cultural norms. He showed and advocated new paths of [[Reading (activity)|reading]] the [[classics|classical]] and [[Modernism|modern]] texts and emphasized the sublime nature, position and pleasures of [[language arts]] to be shared, rejecting their reduction to [[social]] or [[professional]] [[utility|utilities]]. 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.<ref name=BR>{{cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/people/alamgir-hashmi/|url-status=dead|title= Profile of Alamgir Hashmi|website=The Brooklyn Rail website|archive-date=11 May 2024|access-date=11 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240511162014/https://brooklynrail.org/people/alamgir-hashmi/}}</ref><ref name=WritersNet>{{cite web|url=http://www.writers.net/writers/11034 |title=Profile of Alamgir Hashmi|website=WritersNet website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108152826/http://www.writers.net/writers/11034|archive-date=8 November 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=11 May 2024}}</ref>

== Education ==
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).<ref name=encyclopedia>{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hashmi-aurangzeb-alamgir|archive-date=24 August 2023|title=Alamgir Hashmi profile|website=Encyclopedia.com website|url-status=dead|author=Bruce King and Surjit S. Dulai|access-date=11 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230824021925/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/hashmi-aurangzeb-alamgir}}</ref>

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

== Literary Criticism and Scholarly Editions ==
* Pakistani Short Stories in English<ref name=WritersNet/>
* Postindependence Voices in South Asian Writings
* The Commonwealth, Comparative Literature and the World<ref name=WritersNet/>
* The Worlds of Muslim Imagination
* Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-definition of a Popular/Counter Culture
* Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers<ref name=WritersNet/>

== Others ==
* ''Commonwealth Literature: An Essay Towards the Re-Definition of a Popular/Counter Culture.'' Lahore, Vision Press, 1983<ref name=WritersNet/>
* ''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<ref name=WritersNet/>
* Editor, with Les Harrop and others, ''Ezra Pound in Melbourne.'' Ivanhoe, Australia, Helix, 1983
* Editor, ''The Worlds of Muslim Imagination.'' Islamabad, Gulmohar Press, 1986<ref name=WritersNet/>
* Editor, ''Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English.'' London, Routledge, 1994
* Member of the 1996 jury for the [[Neustadt International Prize for Literature]] (American Literary Award)<ref name=BR/>
* ''Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose (New Rivers Press, 2021)<ref name=BR/>

== Awards ==
* The University of the Punjab (Lahore) Scholar, 1970–72, and Certificate of Academic Merit, 1973; first prize<ref name=encyclopedia/>
* All-Pakistan Creative Writing Contest, 1972<ref name=uoi/><ref name=encyclopedia/>
* [[Pakistan Academy of Letters]], [[Patras Bokhari]] award, 1985<ref name=uoi/><ref name=encyclopedia/>
* [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller Fellow]], 1994<ref name=encyclopedia/>
* Roberto Celli Memorial award (Italy), 1994<ref name=encyclopedia/>
* D.Litt.: University of Luxembourg, 1984<ref name=encyclopedia/>
* San Francisco State University, 1984

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