Zulfikar Ghose

Zulfikar Ghose

Zulfikar Ghose (b. March 13, 1935, Sialkot, India (now Pakistan) is a Pakistani American English language writer. He was born in 1935 in Pakistan and moved to Bombay in 1942. After the partition of British India into Pakistan and the present India, he migrated to England teaching at Ealing Mead School and then to the United States in 1969. He lives in Texas and teaches at The University of Texas at Austin.

Ghose has written poetry and prose (fiction and non-fiction) equally. "The Loss of India", "Jets from Orange", "The Violent West", "A Memory of Asia" and "Selected Poems" are some of his poetry books. He has written short stories, novels, biographies and five books of literary criticism.

Bibliography

*"Statement Against Corpses" (1964), short stories, with B. S. Johnson
*"The Loss of India" (1964), poetry
*"Confessions of a Native-Alien" (1965), autobiography
*"The Contradictions" (1966), fiction
*"The Murder of Aziz Khan" (1967), fiction
*"Jets from Orange" (1967), poetry
*"The Incredible Brazilian", fiction
*#"The Native" (1972), ISBN 0-333-13093-6
*#"The Beautiful Empire" (1975), ISBN 0-333-13094-4
*#"A Different World" (1978), ISBN 0-333-13095-2
*"The Violent West" (1972), ISBN 0-333-13241-6, poetry
*"Crump's Terms" (1975), ISBN 0-333-10744-6, fiction
*"Hamlet, Prufrock and Language" (1978), ISBN 0-333-23997-0, non-fiction
*"Hulme's Investigations Into the Bogart Script" (1981), ISBN 0-931604-08-7, fiction
*"A New History of Torments" (1982), ISBN 0-09-147670-4, fiction
*"The Fiction of Reality" (1983), ISBN 0-333-29093-3, non-fiction
*"Don Bueno" (1983), ISBN 0-09-154230-8, fiction
*"A Memory of Asia" (1984), ISBN 0-931604-18-4, poetry
*"Figures of Enchantment" (1986), ISBN 0-09-163640-X, fiction
*"The Art of Creating Fiction" (1991), ISBN 0-333-49019-3, non-fiction
*"Selected Poems" (1991), ISBN 0-19-577388-8, poetry
*"The Triple Mirror of the Self" (1992), ISBN 0-7475-1096-2, fiction
*"Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies" (1993), ISBN 0-333-57909-7, non-fiction
*"Veronica and the Góngora Passion: Stories, Fictions, Tales and One Fable" (1998), ISBN 0-920661-70-X

External links

* [http://www.tsarbooks.com/ TSAR Publications]
* [http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00384.xml&query=zulfikar%20ghose&query-join=and Inventory of His Papers] , [http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00322.xml&query=zulfikar%20ghose&query-join=and Addition to His Papers] at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin


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