Tabish Khair
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Tabish Khair is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, he is the author of various books. His honours and prizes include the All India Poetry Prize (awarded by the Poetry Society and the British Council) and honorary fellowship (for creative writing) of the Baptist University of Hong Kong. His novel, The Bus Stopped, was shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK).
Previously a journalist with the Times of India, Khair continues to write and review occasionally for papers in different countries. In particular, he writes for the Hindu (India) and the Guardian (UK).
Other Routes, an anthology of pre-modern travel texts by Africans and Asians, co-edited and introduced by Khair (with a foreword by Amitav Ghosh) was published in the UK and USA in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
Khair is currently completing his next novel, ‘Filming’, which examines memory, guilt and redemption in the backdrop of the Partition of India and the 1940s Bombay film industry. It will be published by Picador in July 2007.
[edit] Other Publications
- 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, 2005/2006)
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