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Talat Abbasi
A short story writer, TALAT ABBASI was born in Lucknow, and grew up in Karachi. She was educated in Pakistan at St. Joseph's College, Karachi graduated from Kinnaird College, Lahore, and later the London School of Economics, UK. She moved to New York in 1978 where she still lives. She worked for the UN Population Fund until her retirement in 2004, working in gender and population issues across Asia.
Abbasi has published a collection of her short stories, Bitter Gourd and Other Stories (Oxford University Press, 2001), in which “Mirage” originally appeared. Her short fiction is set mostly in Pakistan and revolves around class and gender; it has been published often in U.S. college texts.
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