Shadab Zeest Hashmi

Ilona Yusuf (Independent Scholar - Asia)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.2: Pakistani and Bangladeshi Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Sarker Hasan Al Zayed (Independent University Bangladesh), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Muneeza Shamsie (Independent Scholar - Asia), Niaz Zaman (Independent University Bangladesh)

Dates

Born 1973

Places

Born in Pakistan
Active in United States; Pakistan

Activities

Primary

Poet

Other

Essayist

Resources

Hashmi's Works

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Born in 1973, poet and essayist Shadab Zeest Hashmi spent her early years in Peshawar, and later migrated to the United States, where she studied, married, and now lives and works. She has written four books of poetry and essays. Her first collection of poems,

The Baker of Tarifa,

is about the Convivencia, or Muslim Arab rule in Spain, and won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for Poetry.

Kohl and Chalk

, personal poems as well as experiments with the ghazal in English, was published in 2013;

Ghazal Cosmopolitan

, a compilation of essays, ghazal and qasida in English which came out in 2017, was showcased as the “book of the month” at San Diego Central Library; and

Comb

, a hybrid memoir combining lyric essay, poems, and illustration, was published in 2020, having won the 2019 Hybrid Book…

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Citation: Yusuf, Ilona. "Shadab Zeest Hashmi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 July 2021 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14569, accessed 31 October 2024.]