Ausma Zehanat Khan

Ausma Zehanat Khan is a Canadian novelist and author of crime and fantasy novels.

Ausma Zehanat Khan
OccupationNovelist
NationalityCanadian
GenreCrime fiction, Fantasy fiction
Notable awardsArthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel, 2016
Barry Award for Best First Novel, 2016
Website
ausmazehanatkhan.com

Biography

Khan holds a Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law with a research specialization in military intervention and war crimes in the Balkans. She received her LL.B. and LL.M. from the University of Ottawa, and her B.A. in English Literature and Sociology from the University of Toronto.[1]

Khan was the editor-in-chief of Muslim Girl magazine from 2007 until the magazine's closure.[2]

Khan published her first novel The Unquiet Dead in 2015; the book received "best first novel" accolades from both the Arthur Ellis Awards and the Barry Awards in 2016.

According to the Washington Post, "Throughout Getty and Khattak's solid and comprehensive investigation, Khan's talents are evident. This first in what may become a series is a many-faceted gem. It's a sound police procedural, a somber study of loss and redemption and, most of all, a grim effort to make sure that crimes against humanity are not forgotten."[3]

In a 2018 interview with Nick Douglas, published in Life Hacker magazine, Khan described how she devoted more time to her writing as a novelist, when she and her husband began moving more often, and it didn't seem worthwhile to get the qualification to practice law in a short-term home.[4]

Her newest novel, A Deadly Divide, is slated for publication in 2019.[5]

Works

Novels

Rachel Getty and Esa Khattak series
  • The Unquiet Dead (2015)
  • The Language of Secrets (2016)
  • Among the Ruins (2017)
  • A Death in Sarajevo (2017) (novella)
  • A Dangerous Crossing (2018)[6]
  • A Deadly Divide (2019)

Khorasan Archives series
  • The Bloodprint (2017)
  • The Black Khan (2018)
  • The Blue Eye (2020)

Honors and awards

Awards

Nominations

References
  1. "Bio". Ausma Zehanat Khan. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  2. Lara Spencer; Chris Wragge; Russ Mitchell (July 8, 2008). "Ausma Khan speaks about Muslim Girl magazine". CBS News Broadcast. Retrieved April 14, 2010.
  3. "Ausma Zehanat Khan's crime novel 'The Unquiet Dead' delves into sensitive terrain'". The Washington Post. January 18, 2015. Archived from the original on February 16, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
  4. Nick Douglas (2018-11-28). "I'm Novelist Ausma Zehanat Khan, and This Is How I Work". Life Hacker. Archived from the original on 2019-05-02. Retrieved 2019-05-18. As all this was happening, my husband and I were moving around quite a bit, so instead of taking the bar exam or trying to round up a teaching position everywhere new I moved to, I took some time off to work full-time on a novel.
  5. "28 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2019". CBC Books. 2019-01-25. Archived from the original on 2019-04-10. Retrieved 2019-05-18.
  6. "News". Ausma Zehanat Khan. Archived from the original on 2017-07-23. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  7. "Arthur Ellis Awards". www.stopyourekillingme.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-05. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  8. "Barry Awards". www.stopyourekillingme.com. Archived from the original on 2017-04-01. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
  9. "Macavity Awards :: Mystery Readers International". mysteryreaders.org. Archived from the original on 2016-08-03. Retrieved 2017-05-06.
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