Azra Abbas

About Azra Abbas

Poet and fiction writer, Azra Abbas is one of Pakistan’s foremost women poets writing in Urdu. She was born in Karachi and did her Masters degree from Karachi University. Her ‘Neend Ki Musaftain’, a long, feminist, stream-of-consciousness prose poem was published in 1981. She has five volumes of poetry. Other publications include a memoir, Mera Bachpan, Aaj ke Kitaben, 2001, a collection of short stories, Raastay Mujhay Bulatay Hain, Scheherazade, 2001 and a novel. Two of her books and some of her short stories have been translated into English. Azra Abbas currently lives in the UK.