Zulfikar Ghose

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Zulfikar Ghose is a Pakistani American English language writer. He was born in 1935 in Sialkot and moved to Bombay in 1942. After the partition of British India into Pakistan and the present India, he migrated to England and then to the U.S. in 1969. He lives in Texas and teaches at the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. 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.

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• 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
  1. The Native (1972), ISBN 0333130936
  2. The Beautiful Empire (1975), ISBN 0333130944
  3. A Different World (1978), ISBN 0333130952
• The Violent West (1972), ISBN 0333132416, poetry
• Crump's Terms (1975), ISBN 0333107446, fiction
• Hamlet, Prufrock and Language (1978), ISBN 0333239970, non-fiction
• Hulme's Investigations Into the Bogart Script (1981), ISBN 0931604087, fiction
• A New History of Torments (1982), ISBN 0091476704, fiction
• The Fiction of Reality (1983), ISBN 0333290933, non-fiction
• Don Bueno (1983), ISBN 0091542308, fiction
• A Memory of Asia (1984), ISBN 0931604184, poetry
• Figures of Enchantment (1986), ISBN 009163640X, fiction
• The Art of Creating Fiction (1991), ISBN 0333490193, non-fiction
• Selected Poems (1991), ISBN 0195773888, poetry
• The Triple Mirror of the Self (1992), ISBN 0747510962, fiction
• Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies (1993), ISBN 0333579097, non-fiction
• Veronica and the Góngora Passion: Stories, Fictions, Tales and One Fable (1998), ISBN 092066170X