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Tabish Khair (Hindi: ताबिश खैर) is an Indian English author and associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus in Denmark. His books include ''Babu Fictions'' (2001), ''The Bus Stopped'' (2004), which was shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK) and ''The Thing About Thugs'' (2010), which has been shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Man Asian Literary Prize. His poem ''Birds of North Europe'' won the First Prize in the Sixth The Poetry Society (India) Competition held in 1995. ==Literary career== Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, Khair's honours and prizes include the First Prize in the Sixth The Poetry Society (India) Competition held in 1995 by held and an honorary fellowship for creative writing from the Baptist University of Hong Kong, fellowships at Delhi's universities and a by-fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK. ''Other Routes'' (2005), an anthology of travel writing by Africans and Asians, was edited by Khair (with a foreword by Amitav Ghosh). 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 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".〔''New Statesman'', London, 26 July 2007.〕 An excerpt of the novel has been anthologised in Ahmede Hussain's ''The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words''. In June 2008, it was shortlisted for the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in India. Khair's study ''The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness'' was released by Palgrave (Macmillan) in the UK and US in the winter of 2009. His latest novel, set in Victorian London, ''The Thing About Thugs'', was published by Harper Collins in summer 2010 and has been shortlisted for ''The Hindu'' Best Fiction Award, short-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2012, and short-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize. It is scheduled to appear in translation in Brazil, Italy, Russia and France in 2012. 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) and the French translation of ''The Bus Stopped'' was listed for a major French translation prize. Previously a journalist with the ''Times of India'', Khair continues to write and review for publications in India, UK, Denmark and other places, in particular for the ''Hindu'' (India). His latest novel is the critically acclaimed ''How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position'', released in India in 2012 and due elsewhere in 2013. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tabish Khair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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