Tabish Khair is a poet, novelist, journalist and scholar. He is an Associate Professor at the Aarhus University, Denmark.
Khair’s novels include How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, Just Another Jihadi Jane which was published as Jihadi Jane in India, and The Body by the Shore. His other novels are The Bus Stopped, Filming: A Love Story and The Thing About Thugs. He is also the author of the poetry collections, Where Parallel Lines Meet and Man of Glass. In 2023, he published his first collection of short stories, Namaste Trump and Other Stories and, in 2024, Oxford University Press brought out his study, Literature Against Fundamentalism.
While Khair writes creatively and academically only in English, he has also occasionally translated texts from Urdu, Hindi and Danish. Khair has reviewed and written for various news publication, including the Guardian in UK, Politiken and Information in Denmark, Times of India, the Hindu and Frontline
Khair’s honours and prizes include the All India Poetry Prize, awarded by the Poetry Society and the British Council), as well as prestigious awards by the Leverhulme Foundation (UK), the Carlsberg Foundation (Denmark), etc. His novels have been shortlisted for about 20 prizes in six countries, including the Man Asian Literary Prize, the DSC Prize for South Asia, the Sahitya Akademi award, and the Encore Award, and translated into eight languages.
Drown all the Refugees is Khair’s ninth novel and 23rd book.
His books:
How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position
Jihadi Jane
Night of Happiness
The Thing About Thugs
Reading Literature Today
Man of Glass
Drown all the Refugees (forthcoming)