University of Aarhus
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, Denmark. His books include ''Babu Fictions'' (2001), ''The Bus Stopped'' (2004), which was shortlisted for the
Encore Award
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(UK) and ''The Thing About Thugs'' (2010), which has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
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and the
Man Asian Literary Prize
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Poetry Society
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All India Poetry Competition held in 1995. In 2022, he published a new Sci Fi novel, '' he Body by the Shore'.
Biography
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
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''Other Routes'' (2005), an anthology of travel writing by Africans and Asians, was edited by Khair (with a foreword by
). 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
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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". An excerpt of the novel has been anthologised in
Ahmede Hussain
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's ''The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words''. In June 2008, it was shortlisted for the
Vodafone Crossword Book Award
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in India. ''Anthology of Contemporary Indian Poetry'' (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
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DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
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2012, and
Man Asian Literary Prize
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. 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).
His novel ''How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position'' was released in India in 2012.
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Appearances in the following poetry anthologies:
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Poetry Chain
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and
Writers Workshop
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