News has come as this issue was going to press that Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has died after a short illness. He was the first publisher of this magazine, agreeing to become so in the summer of 1954. If it had not been for his financial assistance at the time, the magazine would have gone under. Sadri (as everyone called him) remained its publisher for over twenty years-a time which saw the magazine rise from fledgling status to a position of relative prominence in literary circles. His interests and concerns were hardly limited to financial matters. Perhaps his greatest contribution was his establishment in 1955 of an annual literary prize in the name of his father, the Aga Khan. It was originally titled The Paris Review Fiction Prize though over the years it has become known as the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. One of the premier annual literary prizes in the country, it has been won by, among others, Philip Roth, Christina Stead, T.C. Boyle,John Banville,Jeffrey Eugenides,Joanna Scott…