Tabish Khair

Tabish Khair was born and educated in Bihar, India. He has published a number of critically-acclaimed collections of poetry -- including Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000) and Man of Glass (2010) -- and novels. His novels have been translated into various languages and shortlisted for a dozen major awards, including the Man Asian Prize, the Encore Award and The Hindu Prize. He has also written or edited several ground-breaking studies and anthologies, including Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (2001) and Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (2005). His latest novel is How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position. Khair now lives in Denmark.