Name: Agha Shahid Ali.
Date of Birth: 4 February 1949.
Died: 8 December 2001.
Country: New Delhi.
Occupation: Poet, Professor.
Known as: National Book Award 2001, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada.
Awards: Pushcart Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship, Ingram-Merrill Foundation Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Books:
- Bone Sculpture (1972).
- In Memory of Begum Akhtar and Other Poems (1979).
- The Half-Inch Himalayas (1987).
- A Walk Through the Yellow Pages (1987).
- A Nostalgist’s Map of America (1991).
- The Beloved Witness: Selected Poems (1992).
- The Country Without a Post Office (1997).
- Rooms Are Never Finished (2001).
- Call Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals (2003).
