Tabish KHAIR

A portrait of Tabish KHAIR.
  • Europe
  • Northern Europe
  • Denmark
English

Tabish KHAIR (fiction and nonfiction writer, journalist, poet, academic; Denmark) was born and educated in the small town of Gaya in Bihar, India. An Indian citizen, he now resides in Denmark, where he teaches in the Department of English at the University of Aarhus. His most recent novels are Just Another Jihadi Jane (2016) and The Body by the Shore (2022). His first collection of short fiction is Namaste Trump & Other Stories (2023). Oxford University Press will publish his new nonfiction book, Literature Against Fundamentalism, in 2024. He participates courtesy of the Paul and Hualing Nieh Engle Fund. 

Happening Now

  • In a recent Haaretz piece, Odeh Bisharat describes the efforts of the Arab-Jewish solidarity movement Standing Together to collect food for needy Gazans as well as build a long-term political coalition.

  • Among the upcoming titles at the lively regional CEEOL Press is 1945 and Other Stories., an English translation of Gábor Szántó’s Hungarian original.

  • An excerpt from Lidija Dimkovska’s most recent novel [Personal Identity Number] appears in the July 2024 issue of World Literature Today.

  • The Spring 2024 issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review features an excerpt from Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s new novel Onboard the Amsterdam or, the Last Voyage of Ibn Battûta,  surveying the burning topics of migrancy, radicalization, and exile. 
     

  • In an opinion piece for NYTimes, Veronica Raimo plumbs the (shallow) depths of Italian women’s media representation.

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