User:Geo Swan/Adnan Khan (writer)
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Adnan Khan is a Canadian writer.[1] Rosemary Sullivan, the winner of the 2016 RBC Taylor Prize, chose Khan to be her protege.[2] The winner of the RBC Taylor Prize picks the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award. The protege gets $10,000 of financial support, and the mentorship of the winner of the primary prize.
Khan published his first novel in 2019, There has to be a Knife.[3][4][5]
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"Essayist Adnan Khan wins 2016 RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award". RBC Wealth Management. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Khan has since moved on from Steven Spielberg films, and has been crafting non-fiction essays and articles over the last three years for publications such as Vice, The Ethnic Aisle and the Globe and Mail, earning a nomination for a National Magazine Award for his Hazlitt essay 'Our Brownness Does Not Belong Here.'
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Conan Tobias (2016-05-17). "Awards: Adnan Khan receives RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award". Quill & Quire. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Khan, who lives in Toronto, is the co-host of Speakeasy, a monthly reading series, and is currently working on a novel and completing his master of fine arts degree.
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"There has to be a Knife". Ryerson University. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
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Rachina Raj Kaur (2019-09-30). "Fast, violent, sleazy Adnan Khan's diaspora novel scraps nostalgia". Now (Toronto). Retrieved 2020-07-25.
I wanted to write something that pushed against traditional techniques and tropes in diasporta novels - something that didn't rely on meaning and association, something more than ″I miss the food back home.'
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Nadine Bachan (2019-10-24). "Profile on Adnan Khan". This magazine. Retrieved 2020-07-25.
Toronto-based author Adnan Khan began his writing career with thoughtful essays (for which he was awarded the RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award in 2016) full of careful observations on the lived experiences of people of colour, both globally and in Canada.
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