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AHMED SOHAIL BORN IN KARACHI PAKISTAN, EDUCATED IN PAKISTAN AND UNITED STATES. HE HAD TAUGHT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AT KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY U.S.A.
HE IS A LITERARY THEORIST,LITERARY CRITIC, POET, TRANSLATOR, SOCIOLOGIST OF URDU LANGUAGE. HE HAS PASSION FOR WRITING AND HAS WRITTEN SEVERAL DRAMAS ON RADIO PAKISTAN FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD, AND ALSO WRITTEN MANY POEMS AND GHAZALS AND WAS ALSO A COLUMNIST IN THE LEADING NEWSPAPER. HE HAS PUBLISHED THREE(3) BOOKS (1) "MODERN THEATRE"(JADEEDTHEATRE) ISLAMABAD,PAKISTAN 1985,(2)"STRUCTURALISM"HISTORY, THEORY AND CRITICISM"(SAKAHTIYAT: TAREEKH,NAZARIA AUR TANQEED) NEW DELHI,INDIA 1999, AND (3) TANQEEDI TEHRIRIEN (CRITICAL WRITINGS) MUMBAI, INDIA 2004. |
HIS LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM IS BASED ON EMPIRICISM, PRAGMATISM AND NEW RATIONALISM. WHICH INTRODUCES UNIQUE TYPE OF INTELLECTUAL SYSTEMOLOGY AND METHODOLOGY OF CRITICISM. HIS CRITICISM IS CATEGORISED AS PRACTICAL CRITICISM.
HE IS HONORED AS "GOLDEN POET" FOR WORLD OF POETRY CALIFORNIA, USA 1991.AHMED SOHAIL BELONGS TO A TRADITIONAL LINE OF POETS BEGINING FROM SHAH NASEER-> ATISH DEHLVI-> DAAGDEHLVI-> SEEMABH AKBARABADI-> SABA MITHRALVI->AHMED SOHAIL, BUT HIS POEMS ARE UNIQUE AND DEPICTS MODERN AESTHETICS AND SENSIBILITY. HIS OBJECTIVE TEXT OF POEMS IS BASICALLY SUBJECTIVE NARRATION OF UNIVERSE WHICH ARE EVIDENT IN POEMS LIKE "STRANDEDON SNOW-BOUND PATH", "A POEM FOR THE KILLER", "A LAST DIALOGUE WITH A CRUEL GIRL" AND "I WANT TO BE WRITTEN ON YOUR PALMS". |
AHMED SOHAIL HAS WRITTEN OVER 700 ARTICLES WHICH ARE WIDELY PUBLISHED IN PAKISTAN, INDIA, BANGLADESH, CANADA, ENGLAND AND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FOR EXAMPLE "POST DECONSTRUCTIONISM, TEXT AND READER", "STRUCTURAL MARXISM AND ORIGIN OF DIALETIC ELEMENTS", "STRUCTURAL THEORY OF TRANSLATION AND URDU TRANSLATION", "ABSTRACTION OF TRANSLATION", "POST MODERNISM AND URDU CRITICISM" AND "SEMIOTIC CONSTRUCTION OF TEXT" (SPECIAL REFERENCE TO READER RESPONSE CRITICISM).
IN HIS LEISURE TIME AHMED SOHAIL LIKES TO GO HUNTING, BIRD WATCHING, FISHING, AND IF TIME PERMITS FROM HIS BUSY SCHEDULE, HE LIKES TO PLAY TENNIS, VOLLEY BALL, BASKETBALL AND BOWLING. HE IS FOUND OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL PAINTINGS. |
AHEMD SOHAIL HAS LAUNCHED SOME LITERARY THEORIES WHICH ARE "POST DECONSTRUCTIONISM", "EBONIC CRITICISM" AND "FORMER COLONIST NUCLEAR DISCOURSES". HE IS PRESENTLY WORKING ON NEW LITERARY THEORY,"NEW SOCIOLOGICAL LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM" AND IS ALSO WORKING ON INFLUENCE OF URDU ON INTERNET(HYPER TEXT).
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QOUTE FROM THE POEM "EPILEPTIC CHILD" WRITTEN BY AHMED SOHAIL.
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