Tabish Khair Explained

Tabish Khair is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark. His books include Babu Fictions (2001), The Bus Stopped (2004), which was shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK) and The Thing About Thugs (2010), which has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature[1] and the Man Asian Literary Prize. His poem Birds of North Europe won first prize in the sixth Poetry Society All India Poetry Competition held in 1995. In 2022, he published a new Sci Fi novel, [The Body by the Shore].

Biography

Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, Khair has received honours and awards including first prize in the sixth Poetry Society (India) Competition held in 1995, an honorary fellowship for creative writing from the Baptist University of Hong Kong, fellowships at New Delhi's universities and a by-fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK. He is currently based in Denmark.

Other Routes (2005), an anthology of travel writing by Africans and Asians, was edited by Khair (with a foreword by Amitav Ghosh). Khair's Encore shortlisted novel, The Bus Stopped, has already appeared in French, Italian and Portuguese. His novel Filming (2007) is set against the backdrop of the Partition of India and the 1940s Bombay film industry. It has been greeted with acclaim: "...in keeping with Khair's pertinent and thought-provoking musings on self-deception".[2] An excerpt of the novel has been anthologised in Ahmede Hussain's The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words. In June 2008, it was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in India. Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry[3] (United States).

Khair's study The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness was released by Palgrave (Macmillan) in the UK and US in the winter of 2009. His novel The Thing About Thugs was published by HarperCollins in summer 2010 and shortlisted for The Hindu Best Fiction Award,[4] the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012, and Man Asian Literary Prize.[5] Khair's works have been translated into various languages; the Danish translation of Filming: A Love Story was shortlisted for Denmark's top translation/literature award (the ALOA prize).[6]

His novel How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position was released in India in 2012.[7]

Bibliography

Appearances in the following poetry anthologies:

Interview :

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DSC Prize 2012 Shortlist Announced . The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature . 2012 . 28 July 2014.
  2. New Statesman, London, 26 July 2007.
  3. Web site: Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry. BigBridge,Org. 9 June 2016.
  4. News: All set for The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010. 31 October 2010. The Hindu. 7 November 2010.
  5. Web site: Tabish Khair . Man Asian Literary Prize . 2014 . 28 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140809033432/http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/tabish-khair/ . 9 August 2014.
  6. Web site: ALOA-prisen 2011 går til colombianske Evelio Rosero . ALOA Prize 2011 goes to Colombian Evelio Rosero . globalnyt.dk . 12 May 2011 . 16 June 2018. da.
  7. Web site: The Islamist axe effect . Javed . Anand . The Asian Age . 13 May 2012 . 28 July 2014.
  8. https://brooklynrail.org/2012/10/express/among-the-thugstabish-khair-with-seb-doubinsky Among The Thugs Tabish Khair with Seb Doubinsky
  9. https://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1793/205/ An Interview with Indian Author Tabish Khair
  10. http://thewritescene.com/blog/tabs-khair-award-winning-author Interview :Tabish Khair
  11. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/citizen-journalists/citizen-journalists-reports/ankit-khandelwal/Keep-going-and-stay-true-to-your-original-impulse-Tabish-Khair/articleshow/17986971.cms Keep going and stay true to your original impulse: Tabish Khair
  12. https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/celebrate-differences-don-t-eliminate-them-writer-tabish-khair-ians-interview-116011200226_1.html Celebrate differences, don't eliminate them: Writer Tabish Khair (IANS Interview)

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