Biography for abdullahi ahmed ali

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Ahmed Ali, best known for his acclaimed literary fiction, was born to Syed Shujauddin, a civil servant, and Ahmad Kaniz Asghar Begum in Just a year later he transferred to Lucknow University, where he published his first short story and graduated, in , with the highest marks in English in the history of the university. In , Ali gained his MA from the same institution and became a lecturer there.

It was in this year that he also met Sajjad Zaheer and Mahmaduzaffar. With Rashid Jahan, the daughter of the well-known advocate of women's education in India, Shaikh Muhammad Abdullah, the three men produced an anthology of short stories titled Anghare 'Burning Coals' which, because of its political radicalism and also, according to some, obscenity, provoked considerable hostility and was eventually banned.

In the wake of this controversy, the four writers became involved in the All-India Progressive Writers' Association which had its beginnings in London in but its first official meeting in Lucknow in Soon after the inception of the AIPWA , a rift developed within it; Ali disagreed with Zaheer and others about the function of literature within society, arguing that it should not be reduced to political propaganda.

He severed his connections with the association, departing for London in with the manuscript of his first novel Twilight in Delhi.

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He remained in Britain for just over a year. During this time, he mixed with writers, both Indian and English. Introduced to E. In China during the partition of the Indian subcontinent, Ali moved to Karachi in the newly formed Pakistan on his return and began a career in the diplomatic service which took him back to China and to Morocco.

He was married to Bilquis Jahan and had three sons and a daughter. Indian Writing extract from Twilight in Delhi , 1, In this interview, Ahmed Ali recalls his visit to England, focusing in particular on his friendship with E. Forster and other writers in the Bloomsbury Group, and describing the events surrounding the publication of his first novel Twilight in Delhi by Hogarth Press in It had its own richness, a richness which the bright-lit, neon-signed London of today will never know again.