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Tabish Khair is anIndian English author andassociate professor in the Department of English,University of Aarhus, Denmark. His books includeBabu Fictions (2001),The Bus Stopped (2004), which was shortlisted for theEncore Award (UK) andThe Thing About Thugs (2010), which has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including theDSC Prize for South Asian Literature[1] and theMan Asian Literary Prize. His poemBirds of North Europe won first prize in the sixthPoetry Society All India Poetry Competition held in 1995. In 2022, he published a new Sci Fi novel,The Body by the Shore.[2]
Born and educated mostly inGaya, India, Khair has received honours and awards including first prize in the sixthPoetry 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 atChurchill College,Cambridge University, UK. He is currently based inDenmark.
Other Routes (2005), an anthology of travel writing by Africans and Asians, was edited by Khair (with a foreword byAmitav Ghosh). Khair's Encore shortlisted novel,The Bus Stopped, has already appeared in French, Italian and Portuguese. His novelFilming (2007) is set against the backdrop of thePartition of India and the 1940sBombay film industry. It has been greeted with acclaim: "...in keeping with Khair's pertinent and thought-provoking musings on self-deception".[3] An excerpt of the novel has been anthologised inAhmede Hussain'sThe New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words. In June 2008, it was shortlisted for theVodafone Crossword Book Award in India.Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry[4] (United States).
Khair's studyThe Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness was released by Palgrave (Macmillan) in the UK and US in the winter of 2009. His novelThe Thing About Thugs was published byHarperCollins in summer 2010 and shortlisted forThe Hindu Best Fiction Award,[5] theDSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012, andMan Asian Literary Prize.[6] Khair's works have been translated into various languages; the Danish translation ofFilming: A Love Story was shortlisted for Denmark's top translation/literature award (the ALOA prize).[7]
His novelHow to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position was released in India in 2012.[8]
Appearances in the following poetry anthologies:
Interview :
