Adib Khan

Adib Khan lives and works as a teacher in Ballarat. He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he lived until 1973, when he came to Australia. 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 Writer's prize for Best Book. It was also shortlisted for the 1994 Age Book of the Year award. Solitude of Illusions, his second novel, was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Ethnic Affairs Commission Award in the 1997 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and won the 1997 Tilly Aston Braille Book of the Year Award. His third novel, The Storyteller, was published by Flamingo in 2000.