Tarquin Hall is an English
writer
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and
journalist
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. He was born in
London
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, in 1969, to an English father and American mother. Hall has spent much of his adult life away from England, living in the United States, Pakistan, India,
Kenya
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and
Turkey
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, and travelling extensively in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
News reporter
Hall has worked in TV news and is a former South Asia bureau chief of
Associated Press TV, based in New Delhi. His chosen subject matter has been wide ranging. He has written features on
Wilfred Thesiger
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Thesiger's trav ...
, Texan rattlesnake hunters, the
Taliban
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, and British-Asian
Urdu
Urdu (;["Urdu"](_blank)
'' Emma McCune
Emma McCune (3 February 1964 – 24 November 1993) was an expatriate British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married then-guerrilla leader Riek Machar. She was killed when hit by a matatu in Kenya whilst expecting her first child.
Biography
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, an English woman who married Southern Sudanese guerrilla commander
Riek Machar; the draining of Iraq's marshes by
Saddam Hussein
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; and a one-on-one with
Abdullah Öcalan, the former leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (
PKK
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), in a Syrian safe house.
Novelist
He is the author of seven books and dozens of articles that have appeared in many British newspapers and magazines, including the ''Times'', ''Sunday Times'', ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Observer'' and ''New Statesman''. Hall's books have received wide acclaim in the British press, as did ''To the Elephant Graveyard'' and ''Salaam Brick Lane
'', which recounts a year spent above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on
Brick Lane (in the
East End of London).
In 2009, Hall published his first mystery novel ''The Case of the Missing Servant,'' introducing the fictional Punjabi character Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. The second in the series, ''The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing'', was released in June 2010.
The third, ''The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken'', was released in July 2012. The fourth title, ''The Case of the Love Commandos'', released in October 2013, features the real-life
Love Commandos, a volunteer team of Indians who try to ease the way for marriages between Hindus of different classes.
Meanwhile, Hall has self-published ''The Delhi Detectives Handbook,'' which chronicles Vish Puri's world and is written in the detective's humble-bragging voice.
Executive roles
Hall currently holds the office of
Chief Executive Officer
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(CEO) of the educational and
cultural charity
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Giving
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* C ...
,
The Idries Shah Foundation.
Personal life
Hall currently lives in the UK
after six years residing in New Delhi.
He is married to the Indian-born American
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reporter and presenter Anu Anand.
They have a young son and daughter.