Omair Ahmad

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Omair Ahmad, (* 1974 in Aligarh ) is an Indian political advisor, journalist and writer.

Life

He grew up in Gorakhpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . Literature played an important role in Omair Ahmad's family. The son of an engineer grew up in India and Saudi Arabia and attended the school of the American embassy there. After returning to India, he obtained a BA with a major in science. He also received an annual literary prize. He then studied international politics with a focus on Kashmir at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi and Syracuse University in New York. He lives in New Delhi .

Literary work

Omair Ahmad's first novel, Encounters , was published in 2007. The subject of the novel is the radicalization of middle-class youth.

His second work, The Storyteller's Tale , appeared in 2009 and was a success in India and then internationally. It was created based on the oral storytelling tradition of India. The novella is about a homeless storyteller who flees in the course of the destruction of Delhi in the middle of the 18th century and finds refuge with a young princess and exchanges stories with her. In 2011 the German translation by Anne Breubeck was published under the title The Storyteller .

In 2010 the novel Jimmy the Terrorist was published . In retrospect, he describes the life story and radicalization of a young Muslim in the fictional north Indian town of Moazzamabad in the 1960s. Jamaal, who develops into Jimmy in the course of the novel, experiences provocations and humiliations from Hindus in his environment. One day he loses his temper and commits an act of violence. The city is then overwhelmed by media interest

Publications

  • 2007 Encounters (Tara Press, New Delhi)
  • 2009 The Storyteller's Tale (Viking)
  • 2010 Jimmy the Terrorist (Hamish Hamilton / Penguin Books India, New Delhi)

In German translation

  • 2011 The storyteller (Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg)
  • 2012 Jimmy the Terrorist (Draupadi Verlag, Heidelberg)

Awards

  • 2009 Shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize for the manuscript of Jimmy the Terrorist
  • 2010 Winner of the Vodafone Crossword Book Award in the English Fiction category for the novel Jimmy the Terrorist
  • 2011 invitation to the Berlin International Literature Festival
  • 2012 Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for Jimmy the Terrorist

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 11th International Literature Festival Berlin / Omair Ahmad
  2. ↑ [Omair Ahmad: The storyteller. Draupadi Verlag 2011.]
  3. ↑ 11th International Literature Festival Berlin / Omair Ahmad
  4. ↑ 11th International Literature Festival Berlin / Omair Ahmad
  5. ↑ [Omair Ahmad: The storyteller. Draupadi Verlag 2011.]
  6. ↑ DNA Book Review: Jimmy The Terrorist, February 18, 2011
  7. ↑ 11th International Literature Festival Berlin / Omair Ahmad
  8. ↑ Man Asian Literary Prize / Omair Ahmad ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.manasianliteraryprize.org
  9. ^ Awards for excellence in Indian writing, * The Times of India , September 3, 2011
  10. ↑ 11th International Literature Festival Berlin / Omair Ahmad
  11. ↑ DSC Prize Longlist for 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Ahmad, Omair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian political advisor, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Aligarh