Zulfikar Ghose obituary

My uncle Zulfikar Ghose, who has died aged 87, earned his living as a poet, teacher, novelist and literary critic in Britain during the 1950s and 60s before spending much of the rest of his life as a creative writing lecturer at an American university.

Zulf was born in India in Sialkot (now in Pakistan), the third of four children; he had three sisters, Virginia, Lily and Zahida. His father, Khwaja Mohammed Ghosh, was a businessman and his mother, Selima (nee Virk), a homemaker. The family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1942 before leaving India in 1952.