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Vijay Khurana

Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the Novel Prize and was published by Ultimo Press in 2025. His short stories and essays have appeared in The Guardian, The Griffith Review, The Erotic Review, Big Issue and The Believer, among others. Vijay was co-winner of the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices Competition and has been shortlisted for prizes including the Galley Beggar Short Story Prize and the Bath Short Story Award. As a translator from German, he has published works by the early 20th Century expressionist Georg Heym and contemporary novelist Senthuran Varatharajah. His translation of Varatharajah’s novel Red (Hunger) will be published in 2026 by Tilted Axis Press.  

Vijay has also been a presenter on triple j and has published a children's chapter book, Regal Beagle.

 

Articles by Vijay Khurana

Berlin Writers in Conversation
As part of the Writing the Self, Writing Berlin series led by our CHASE intern Divya Ghelani, three writers based in Berlin – Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Vijay Khurana, and Deniz Utlu – sat down together this summer for a filmed conversation on topics ranging from Berlin's identity as a creative capital to immigration, translation politics, and more. Watch the conversation — exploring what it means to write in Berlin today.
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