Profile of Anwar Maqsood Zahidi
Real Name : Anwar Zahidi
Anwer Zahidi is a Pakistani Urdu author of books of poetry, short stories, travelogue and translations. An MBBS doctor from Nishtar Medical College, Multan, he is also known in South Asia primarily as a “modern” poet (Nazam-e-Azad).He also translated Hermann Hesse in Barishon Ka Mausam (The Rainy Season) and Carl Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious for the National Language Authority. Besides these highly technical books he has also translated Arabic, Turkish and Latin American literary masterpieces. One of his masterpieces in the field of translation is Pablo Neruda's autobiography.