Adib Khan
Adib Khan | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Notable awards | 1994 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards – Fiction, winner; 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book |
Adib Khan is an Australian novelist of Bangladeshi origin. He moved to Australia in 1973 and obtained an MA from Monash University in 1976.[1] He taught creative writing at Ballarat University, and in 2007 returned to Monash to pursue a PhD.[2][3]
Khan started writing in his 40s and has published five novels. His first novel, Seasonal Adjustments won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, the Book of the Year award in the 1994 NSW Premier′s Literary Awards, and the 1995 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, and was also shortlisted for the 1994 Age Book of the Year award.[4] Solitude of Illusions was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the Ethnic Affairs Commission Award in the 1997 NSW Premier′s Literary Awards. It won the 1997 Tilly Aston Braille Book of the Year Award.[5]
Novels
[edit | edit source]- Seasonal Adjustments, Allen & Unwin, 1994, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Solitude of Illusions, Allen & Unwin, 1996, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- The Storyteller, Flamingo, 2000, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Homecoming, Flamingo, 2003, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- Spiral Road, HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2007, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ "Award-winning author focuses on new novel" Archived March 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
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- ^ Khan's biography on HarperCollins' website Archived March 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
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External links
[edit | edit source]- A review of Adib Khan’s “Seasonal Adjustments”, The Daily Star, Jessica Mudditt, 10 April 2010
- ‘No Better or Worse Than Anyone, But an Equal’: Negotiating Mutuality in Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments (Stefano Mercanti, JASAL, 2012)
- Re-storying the Past, Re-imagining the Future in Adib Khan’s Homecoming and Spiral Road. (Stefano Mercanti, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2016: 622-633).
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- Living people
- Writers from Dhaka
- 20th-century Australian novelists
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- Australian male novelists
- Bangladeshi emigrants to Australia
- Australian people of Bangladeshi descent
- Australian Muslims
- Monash University alumni
- Academic staff of the Federation University Australia
- 20th-century Australian male writers
- 21st-century Australian male writers
- Bangladeshi writer stubs