Tabish Khair joins the Department as John Tilney Writer in Residence

Posted on 7 April 2016

This Summer Term’s John Tilney Writer in Residence is the multi-talented poet, novelist and critic, Tabish Khair.

Tabish will be offering weekly workshops in Creative Writing for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Department of English.

Born and educated in Bihar, Tabish Khair is one of India's leading contemporary poets and novelists, as well as a critic. He is the author of the poetry collections Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000) and Man of Glass (Harper Collins, 2010), and the novels The Bus Stopped (Picador, 2004), Filming (Picador, 2007), The Thing About Thugs (Harper Collins, 2010; Houghton Mifflin, 2012) and How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (Interlink and Corsair, 2014). He is also the author of the critical studies Babu Fictions: Alienation in Indian English Novels (OUP, 2001) and The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness (Palgrave, 2010).

Tabish Khair has won the All India Poetry Prize (awarded by the Poetry Society and the British Council) and his novels have been shortlisted for prestigious prizes in five countries, including the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Encore Award. His work has been translated in several languages.

Tabish will be giving a reading of his work at 6.00pm on Monday 18th April, in the Treehouse, followed by a drinks reception to welcome him to York.