Tabish Khair
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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
[edit]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
[edit]- Where Parallel Lines Meet. Penguin. 2000.
- Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels. Oxford UP. 2001.
- The Bus Stopped. Picador. 2004.
- Other Routes. Signal Books and Indiana University Press. 2006. ISBN 9781904955122.
- Filming: A Love Story. Picador. 2007.
- The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere. Palgrave. 2009.
- Man of Glass: Poems. HarperCollins. 2010.
- The Thing About Thugs. HarperCollins. 2010.
- The Thing About Thugs. Houghton Mifflin. 2012.
- Reading Literature Today. Sage. 2011. (Co-authored with Sebastien Doubinsky)
- How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. HarperCollins. 2012.
- How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. Corsair (Constable and Robinson / Little, Brown). 2014.
- The New Xenophobia. Oxford University Press. 2016.
- Jihadi Jane. Penguin (India). 2016.
- Just Another Jihadi Jane. Periscope (UK) and Interlink (USA). 2016.
- Night of Happiness. Picador (India). May 2018.
Appearances in the following poetry anthologies:
- Travelogue : The Grand Indian Express (2018), ed. by Dr. Ananad Kumar and published by Authorspress, New Delhi
- A New Book of Indian Poems in English (2000), ed. by Gopi Kottoor and published by Poetry Chain and Writers Workshop, Calcutta
Interview :
- "The Brooklyn Rail : In conversation with Tabish Khair"[8]
- "Cha: An Asian Literary Journal"[9]
- "Interview with Tabish Khair"[10]
- "Tabish Khair with Ankit Khandelwal at The Times of India"[11]
- "Interview : IANS"[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "DSC Prize 2012 Shortlist Announced". The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. 2012. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ New Statesman, London, 26 July 2007.
- ^ "Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry". BigBridge,Org. Retrieved 9 June 2016.
- ^ "All set for The Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010". The Hindu. 31 October 2010. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ^ "Tabish Khair". Man Asian Literary Prize. 2014. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "ALOA-prisen 2011 går til colombianske Evelio Rosero" [ALOA Prize 2011 goes to Colombian Evelio Rosero]. globalnyt.dk (in Danish). 12 May 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ^ Anand, Javed (13 May 2012). "The Islamist axe effect". The Asian Age. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ Among The Thugs Tabish Khair with Seb Doubinsky
- ^ An Interview with Indian Author Tabish Khair
- ^ Interview :Tabish Khair
- ^ Keep going and stay true to your original impulse: Tabish Khair
- ^ Celebrate differences, don't eliminate them: Writer Tabish Khair (IANS Interview)
External links
[edit]- Review of The Body by the Shore [1]
- Official author website
- Poetry International Web page on Khair
- Tabish Khair page at HarperCollins India
- Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, "From Coolie Hinterland to Babu Stardom: An Interview with Tabish Khair". Epiphany: Online Journal of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, International University of Sarajevo, ISSN 1840-3719 / Volume 1 / No. 1, Fall 2008.
- How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Tabish Khair – review at Guardian
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