Career
Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, Khair"s honours and prizes include the First Prize in the Sixth The Poetry Society (India) Competition held in 1995 by held and 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, United Kingdom.now he is based in denmark Other Routes (2005), an anthology of travel writing by Africans and Asians, was edited by Khair (with a foreword by Amitav Ghosh). Khair"s Encore shortlisted novel, The Business Stopped, has already appeared in French, Italian and Portuguese. His novel Filming (2007) is set against the backdrop of the Partition of India and the 1940s Bombay film industry.
lieutenant has been greeted with acclaim: "..in keeping with Khair"s pertinent and thought-provoking musings on self-deception".
An excerpt of the novel has been anthologised in Ahmede Hussain"s The New Anthem: The Subcontinent in its Own Words. Khair"s study The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness was released by Palgrave (Macmillan) in the United Kingdom and United States in the winter of lieutenant is scheduled to appear in translation in Brazil, Italy, Russia and France in Khair"s works have been translated into various languages.
The Danish translation of Filming: A Love Story was shortlisted for Denmark"s top translation/literature award (the ALOA prize) and the French translation of The Business Stopped was listed for a major French translation prize. His latest novel is the critically acclaimed How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position, released in India in 2012 and due elsewhere in 2013.
