Alamgir Hashmi

Alamgir Aurangzeb HashmiTemplate:Efn (born 15 November 1951) is an English language poet and writer of Pakistani origin.<ref name="Roberts2008">Template:Cite book</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">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=uoi/><ref name=encyclopedia/>

Career

He was a practicing transnational humanist and educator in North American, European and Asian universities.<ref name=uoi>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has 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 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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=WritersNet>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</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 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