Adib Khan is an

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novelist of

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i origin. He moved to Australia in 1973 and obtained an MA from

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in 1976. He taught creative writing at

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, and in 2007 returned to Monash to pursue a PhD. Khan started writing in his 40s and has published five novels. His

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, '' 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

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for Best Book, and was also shortlisted for the 1994 Age Book of the Year award. ''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.

Novels

* '' Seasonal Adjustments'', Allen & Unwin, 1994, * ''Solitude of Illusions'', Allen & Unwin, 1996, * ''The Storyteller'', Flamingo, 2000, * ''Homecoming'', Flamingo, 2003, * ''Spiral Road'', HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2007,

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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). Living people Writers from Dhaka 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Year of birth missing (living people) 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 {{Bangladesh-writer-stub

Novels

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