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This subcategory is for English-language sites offering information about literary authors, periods, and movements, as well as bibliograhpies and other leads, for all forms of Pakistani literature written. It will include criticism about this literature, but will not have any creative material, which belongs to other subcategories.

Resources in This Category

• Adam Zameenzad

  http://www.thesusijnagency.com/AdamZameenzad.htm
  Novelist Zameenzad's life and books described briefly.

• Ilona Yusuf

  http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/talentbazaar/bio/ilona_yusuf/
  A short introduction to a young poet and artist.

• Khurram Khiraam's Hayat-i-Nau

  http://www.desiwriterslounge.net/forums/index.php?topic=1669.0
  A brief note about a young bilingual poet and his book.

• Moth Smoke

  http://www.salon.com/2000/01/06/hamid/
  Mohsin Hamid's first novel is reviewed here.

• Noon Meem Rashed - The Unorthodox Poet

  http://tribune.com.pk/story/145266/centenary-recital-noon-meem-rashed-the-unorthodox-poet/
  Record of the birth centenary celebration at The Literature Podium, Ialamabad (theliteraturepodium@gmail.com) of this major Urdu poet -with recitals, papers, and discussion on how to read his poetry in the new century.

• Poet, Scholar Hashmi in Iowa

  http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2004/october/101904hashmi.html
  This is a useful and relevant introduction to the work of the major English poet and scholar Professor Alamgir Hashmi, who suggested important principles of cultural coexistene a quarter century ago.

• Postcolonial and Postimperial Authors

  http://www.postcolonialweb.org/misc/authors.html
  A list of well-known authors from Pakistan and the Indian Subcontinent. The main site has many useful links.

• Shaila Abdullah

  http://www.shailaabdullah.com/
  The site presents biographical and bibliographical information about Shaila Abdullah, writer and graphic designer.

• Twilight in Delhi: Indian Resentment of British Rule

  http://www.postcolonialweb.org/india/politics/indresent.html
  A socio-political take on a classic, Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940).

• What Is a Ghazal?

  http://smriti.com/urdu/ghazal.def.html
  The ghazal verse-form is described, as in Urdu and some other languages.

• WritersNet: Alamgir Hashmi

  http://www.writers.net/writers/11034
  Reflection on literary biography and a list of titles by the author, together with criticism about each title, which has reference value.

• Zulfikar Ghose Reading in Islamabad

  http://tribune.com.pk/story/118059/if-poetry-and-literature-are-happening-the-human-spirit-is-alive/
  Account of novelist and poet Zulfikar Ghose's recent reading at The Literature Podium, Islamabad (theliteraturepodium@gmail.com), it has fresh critical and biographical information.

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