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Azhar Abidi

Road to Chitral

Here is a new memoir/travelogue/essay about Pakistan that I wrote for Granta.

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About Me

Azhar Abidi is a writer. He was born and raised in Pakistan and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

He has published two novels, PASSAROLA RISING and TWILIGHT besides short stories, travelogues and other features. TWILIGHT appears in the USA as THE HOUSE OF BILQIS.

He is represented by the Colchie Agency.

Author photo: Nina Subin

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Author interviews

The Wall Street Journal, Azhar Abidi talks about Pakistan, family and a changing society, 20 April 2009

ABC Radio National, Saturday Extra with Geraldine Doogue, 20 September 2008

The Face: Azhar Abidi in The Australian, September 13, 2008

A writer's duty to spread his wings in The Age, February 11, 2006

Lunch with Azhar Abidi, Belgrave Library, March 26, 2009

A Pakistani novelist in Australia, in Dawn, March 22, 2009

Novels

The House of Bilqis
Twilight
Passarola Rising

Short stories

Rosa
The Secret History of the Flying Carpet

Features

Hardships of the Desert
The Abominable Snowman
Snow leopards of Hushe

Translations

The Old Croc
The Fall of Baghdad

Blog Archive

► 2011 (1)
- ► April (1)
  - On cluster bombs

▼ 2010 (7)
- ▼ September (5)
- ► June (2)
  - Lama with radio.
  - My father bought his first hi-fi system when I wa...

► 2009 (3)
- ► June (1)
  - Rocketeers
- ► March (2)
  - Hoshruba and the plum trees
  - Brooke Bond House