Tabish Khair

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Tabish Khair (www.tabishkhair.co.uk) is a poet, novelist, journalist and scholar, born in Ranchi and educated in Gaya, Bihar. He worked for the Times of India (Patna, and then the Delhi office) and later completed a PhD from Copenhagen University and a DPhil from Aarhus University, Denmark, where he teaches now. Khair’s novels include The Bus Stopped (2004), The Thing About Thugs (2010) How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2014), Jihadi Jane (2016) and The Body by the Shore (2022). He is also the author of the poetry collections, Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000) and Man of Glass (2010), and various academic studies. Oxford University Press brought out his latest study, Literature Against Fundamentalism (2024). Winner of the All India Poetry Prize, Khair’s fiction has been shortlisted for major prizes in India and abroad, such as the Man Asian Literary Prize, the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the Hindu Best Fiction Award, the Encore Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, etc.