21st Century Bihari authors of English Literature-2
Bihar has been the home of some of the great writers and poets since ancient times including Chanakya who wrote Arthashatra, Vatsayayana who wrote Kamasutra and Aryabhatta, the author of Aryabhatiya were all from Bihar. (Chanakya, though, was born in Taxila, in modern day Pakistan but was instrumental in the creation of the great Mauryan empire).
Also read:
- The Eminent Bihari English Writers of the 21st Century – Part 1
- The Eminent Bihari English Writers of the 21st Century – Part 3
- The Eminent Bihari English Writers of the 21st Century – Part 4
Over the centuries, Vidyapati (Maithili poet), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar and Baba Nagarjun (both eminent Hindi writers) from Bihar have richly contributed to the Indian literature.
In the 21st century as well, Bihari writers continue to carve a niche for themselves and are known globally for their literary works. In this series we profile these Bihari authors of English literature who truly keep the Bihar flag flying high in literary field across the globe.
Tabish Khair
Tabish Khair (1966) was born and educated mostly in Gaya, Bihar. Khair’s honours and prizes include the First Prize in the Sixth All India Poetry 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 Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK.
Khair is currently based in Denmark, where he is an associate professor in the Department of English, University of Aarhus.
His books include Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000), Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels (2001), The Bus Stopped (2004), Other Routes (2006), Filming: A Love Story (2007), The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere (2009), Man of Glass: Poems (2010), The Thing About Thugs (2012), Reading Literature Today (2011)(Co-authored with Sebastien Doubinsky), How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2014), The New Xenophobia (2016), Jihadi Jane (2016) and
Night of Happiness (2018).
His books have been shortlisted for various awards including Man Asian Literary Prize.
– globalbihari bureau
