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Zulfikar Ghose was born on 13 March, 1935 in Sialkot, Punjab, British India, is an American novelist, poet and essayist (1935–2022). Discover Zulfikar Ghose's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Novelist, poet, essayist
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 13 March, 1935
Birthday 13 March
Birthplace Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Date of death 30 June, 2022
Died Place Austin, Texas, US
Nationality India

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1935

Zulfikar Ghose (March 13, 1935 – June 30, 2022) was a Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist.

His works are primarily magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism.

Born in Sialkot, Punjab, which was in British India before Independence and Partition, Ghose grew up as a Muslim.

His father, Khwaja Mohammed Ghose, was a businessman.

1942

In 1942, during the Second World War, the family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai).

After the partition of Undivided India into Pakistan and India, Ghose and his family emigrated to England.

1959

He graduated from Keele University in 1959, going on to teach at Ealing Mead School in London.

He became a close friend of Anthony Smith, and of British experimental writer B. S. Johnson, with whom he collaborated on several projects.

The three writers met when they served as joint editors of an annual anthology of student poets called Universities' Poetry. Ghose also met English poet Ted Hughes and his wife, the American poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, and American author Janet Burroway, with whom he occasionally collaborated.

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It also contains correspondence with Anthony Smith from 1959 to 1992.

1963

While teaching and writing in London from 1963 to 1969, Ghose also freelanced as a sports journalist, reporting on cricket and hockey for The Observer newspaper.

In 1963, Ghose received a special award from the E. C. Gregory Trust that was judged by T. S. Eliot, Henry Moore, Herbert Read and Bonamy Dobrée.

A year earlier, the Times Literary Supplement featured Ghose as the most prominent poet from the former British colonies by printing three of his poems spread across half a page.

1964

Two collections of his poetry were published, The Loss of India (1964) and Jets From Orange (1967), as were an autobiography called Confessions of a Native-Alien (1965) and his first two novels, The Contradictions (1966) and The Murder of Aziz Khan (1969).

The Contradictions explores differences between Western and Eastern attitudes and ways of life.

In 1964, Ghose married Helena de la Fontaine, an artist from Brazil (a country he later used as the setting for six of his novels).

Ghose's poems, including those in The Loss of India (1964), Selected Poems (1991), and 50 Poems (2010), are often about the travels and memories of a self-aware alien.

1967

In The Murder of Aziz Khan (1967), his second novel, a small farmer tries to save his traditional land from greedy developers.

1969

He moved from London to the United States in 1969 to teach at the University of Texas in Austin, where he taught English literature and creative writing until his retirement as professor emeritus in 2007.

1970

In the 1970s, Ghose gained international repute with his trilogy The Incredible Brazilian, which American writer Thomas Berger called "a picaresque prose epic of Brazilian history."

American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux called the work "a considerable feat of imagination."

1972

The trilogy — comprising The Native (1972), The Beautiful Empire (1975), and A Different World (1978) — presents the picaresque adventures, often violent or sexually perverse, of a man who goes through several reincarnations.

His books of poetry include The Violent West (1972), A Memory of Asia (1984) and Selected Poems.

He wrote short stories, novels and five books of literary criticism.

1973

Berger's dystopic 1973 novel Regiment of Women was dedicated to Ghose.

The Zulfikar Ghose Collection at the Harry Ransom Center includes poetry from The Loss of India, Jets from Orange, and other poems and work from that era.

1975

Ghose's other novels include Crump's Terms (1975), Hulme's Investigations into the Bogart Script (1981), A New History of Torments (1982), Don Bueno (1983), Figures of Enchantment (1986), The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992), and Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies (1993).

Ghose wrote many poems as well as fictional and non-fictional works of prose.

1989

In 1989, The Review of Contemporary Fiction published an edition dedicated to Milan Kundera/Zulfikar Ghose.

Its editors noted that "Zulfikar Ghose has both ranked with and outranked several of the best English language writers in England and America," and went on to present him as "a unique figure in contemporary literature," whose "evolution across languages and national boundaries" was comparable to Conrad, Nabokov and Beckett.

In his book "Zulfikar Ghose: The Lost Son of the Punjab, " literature professor Mansoor Abbasi said Ghose remained marginalized among writers accorded a world-class status because his work resists categorization.

For Ghose, to use Proust's words, "Quality of language and the beauty of an image are the heart of great writing."

2004

Ghose became a U.S. citizen in 2004.

2009

Beckett's Company (2009) is a collection of personal and literary essays.

His work has been translated into many languages.

Largely considered a writer's writer who eschewed commercial literature, Ghose saw style and beauty as the objective of writing and art.

Ghose's correspondence with Berger, spanning 40 years, is housed for research at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

The letters cover topics such as their writing projects, books they were reading and personal concerns.