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Azhar Abidi
Azhar Ali Abidi (born 6 February 1968 in Wah, Pakistan) is a Pakistani Australian author and translator. He went to school in Pakistan and later studied electrical engineering at the Imperial College London and Masters of Business Administration at the University of Melbourne. He migrated to Australia in 1994 and lives in Melbourne, Australia. ==Career== Abidi has written translations, travelogues, and a number of short stories, including the Borgesian ''The Secret History of the Flying Carpet'', which is a fictitious story in a seemingly scholarly essay. His first novel, ''Passarola Rising'' (2006), was published by Viking Penguin in Australia, USA, Canada and India and translated into Spanish and Portuguese. It is set in Europe during the eighteenth century and is the fictionalised story of a true life Brazilian priest and aviation pioneer, Bartolomeu de Gusmão, who built a flying ship but fell foul of the Inquisition. Written in the style of an old-fashioned adventure story, it is a veiled criticism of the scientific materialism emerging from the European Enlightenment, and its inability to explain spiritual and supernatural phenomena.〔(A conversation with Azhar Abidi ).〕 ''Passarola Rising'' was shortlisted for the 2006 Melbourne Literature Prize.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher= Melbourne Prize Trust )〕 In his second novel, ''Twilight'' (2008), Abidi turns to domestic and realist themes. Set in Pakistan during the 1980s, it is the story of an elderly matriarch, and her reaction to the changes she sees in her family and society during the turbulent times. Twilight is published by Text Publishing in Australia and by Viking Penguin in the USA and India. It appears in the USA as ''The House of Bilqis'' (2009). In 2010, Abidi wrote an essay on Pakistan, ''The Road to Chitral'', for (Granta Online ), which is a travelogue and a meditation on violence in the region.
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