1949 to 2001Srinagar and the United States
The poet who carried Kashmir into English verse.
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Born in New Delhi and raised in Srinagar, Agha Shahid Ali wrote in English about memory, exile and his homeland. His collection The Country Without a Post Office, published in 1997, is one of the best-known literary works about Kashmir in the 1990s, and he did much to bring the ghazal form into English.
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- He edited Ravishing DisUnities, a collection of ghazals written in English.
