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Writings on crime fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 20, 2013: The Mysteriously Enticing World of Biblio-Mysteries

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 29, 2013: The Amazing Rediscovery of a Long-Forgotten Parsi Fictional Hero

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 20, 2013: When HRF Keating came to Bombay

  • The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 16, 2013: So you want to write a James Bond novel, it's easy

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 23, 2013: Biographer of the Criminal Minds

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, October 27, 2012: The Crime fictions of China

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 22, 2012: Hans Koppel, the New Face of Swedish Crime Fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 8, 2012: The Indian Crime Novel

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 26, 2012: The Curse of the East

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 10, 2012: How much violence is too much?

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 4, 2012: A tour plan for the morbid tourist

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 17, 2011: On plagiarism and piracy

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, November 12, 2011: The past and future of crime fiction

• The Caravan, October 2011: How Agatha Christie became Agatha Christie

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 2, 2011: Shopping for Detective Novels in South India

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 20, 2011: The generation gap in Crime Fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 24, 2011: The best crooks in the world of fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 30, 2011: The facts about facts in crime fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, April 2, 2011: The therapeutical uses of crime fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 19, 2011: A walk-in encyclopedia of real-life crime-fighting

• Deccan Herald Sunday Review: The horrors of terror

• The must read crime novel list

• Feature story for Open Magazine, January 17, 2011: A guide to crime fiction for dummies

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 8, 2011: The counterfactual possibilities of crime fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 18, 2010: Almost deadly crime writing from Japan

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 4, 2010: The cold war is hot again

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, October 9, 2010: Crime and detective fiction in Australia

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 28, 2010: Supernatural detection, does it really work?

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 31, 2010: How to write a masterpiece of crime fiction

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 3, 2010: When reality and fiction merges - how close is too close?

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 26, 2010: Walking in a hero's footsteps - guided detective tours

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 22, 2010: RE-birth of a genre - springtime for Indian crime & detective fiction?

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 1, 2010: A school for crime writers?

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 27, 2010: The three best detective stories

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 6, 2010: The mystery of mysteries

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 6, 2010: How to be a poetic detective

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 9, 2010: Scandinavian detectives plotting in India

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 26, 2009: The day I saw the future of Detective Fiction, Page 2, Page 3 

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, December 12, 2009: Mystery Cities of India

• The ABC of Bad Crime Novelists printed in Deccan Herald's Sunday review section (December 6, 2009) and on Sunday, March 28, 2010: Rediscoveries in the world of Indian pulp crime fiction

• Lounge on Saturday, October 24, 2009: FEATURE "Land of the Melancholic Cops", on Swedish crime fiction & interview with the best-selling Henning Mankell. As the printed version of the feature is abridged, you will find the original version here including some blurry snaps: Land of the Melancholic Cops and Interview with Henning Mankell, "Crime fiction is the mirror" and here's the somewhat shorter published story: Start page and it continues here page two and here page three and ends with the abridged Mankell interview

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, September 26, 2009: "Sherlock Holmes never came to India - or did he?"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, August 29, 2009: "An insider-view of the Locked Room Mystery genre"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, July 25, 2009: "By now, if you've read all of the below, you might wonder How To Write A Crime Novel"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, June 27, 2009: "How to play around with history successfully in a crime novel"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 30, 2009: "Truman Capote meets Bollywood in true crime magazine Crime & Detective" (and some blog responses to this particular column here: http://engageentertainenlighten.blogspot.com/2010/03/if-youre-thinking-of-writing-feature.html & http://immanuelscant.wordpress.com/)

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, May 2, 2009: "The perils of posthumous sequels"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, March 28, 2009: "Martin Cruz Smith and the Use of Location"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, February 28, 2009: "James Ellroy and his Demons"

• The Criminal Mind on Saturday, January 17, 2009: "Cornell Woolrich, father of noir"

• Old story, printed in The Hindu Literary Review, Sunday, February 4, 2007: "On the Paradoxes of Imagination"

• Finally a story printed in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter: "On scouting for settings for Detective Novels in India"

Two Swedish crime writers looking for settings to their respective crime novels in Chicken Gali in Bengaluru.

Photo by Raghav Shreyas.

Writings on other writers

In Swedish:

• Asked to name my five favourite novels on India Mina fem favoritböcker om Indien

• A brief history of Indian literature - very much the way I see it, and not necessairly the whole story En kortfattad indisk litteraturhistoria – rätt mycket som jag ser saken och knappast hela historien; plus kompletterande artikel om indisk bestsellerproduktion i tidningen Vi

• An essay on Franz Fanon for a series called "Ten Books That Changed The World" (newspaper Dagens Nyheter) En kort essä om Franz Fanons bok ”Jordens fördömda” som skrevs till en serie som DN hade om ’Tio böcker som förändrade världen”, på websiten kan man klicka sig till de andra nio artiklarna.

• A column on Artur Lundkvist from newspaper Helsingborgs Dagblad En krönika om Artur Lundkvist, hans födelseby Oderljunga och resa till Indien

  • En indisk deckarboom?!

  • The Jaipur Literary Festival Om Jaipurs litteraturfestival 2010, i Rajasthan i Indien

  • A column on Chetan Bhagat En krönika om Chetan Bhagat, Indiens stora litteraturfenomen just nu

In English:

• A recent visit to Goa, which appears to be colonized again - this time by writers! (five pages) Start page and page two and page three and page four and page five or browse the virtual version of this cover story here

• Interview with Henning Mankell, "Crime fiction is the mirror" 

  • An essay on RK Narayan (photo underneath) in The Hindu Literary Review

RK Narayan in his study (left) & on his balcony (right)  Photo: ZOY.

Writings on travel

In English:

• The Hindu Literary Review: Bill Aitken and old school travel writing

• The Hindu Literary Review: A book about travelling through memories of the Raj

• Outlook Traveller Magazine: In the Buddha's footsteps

  • Deccan Herald on Sunday: Paul Theroux cooks up a A Disastrous Recipe

  • Outlook Traveller Magazine: Reflections on The Silk Road

• Deccan Herald on Sunday: Reflections on Writing about the Atlantic Ocean

• Forbes Magazine: Going to Egypt right after the Revolution

In Swedish:

• The travel magazine RES: Hungover in Bombay Guiden till hur man släpper loss i Indiens nöjeshuvudstad Mumbai

• The travel magazine RES: Why one ought to live in Goa Om min jakt på ett hem i Goa

• On wine in India En artikel om vin i Indien

• Selections from my almost ten years as a travel columnist are occasionally re-published online Sedan 2001 har resekrönikan ”Zac: Vår man i Indien” publicerats i tidningen RES

• Another short travel column I've been doing more recently in Helsingborgs Dagblad: on Chhau Dance in Seraikella followed by this on Cliff Richard's roots in India followed by another one on something else Sedan 2009 har kortare krönikor då och då publicerats i Helsingborgs Dagblad

• Three stories from Sri Lanka (in the travel magazine RES) one story and another story and a third story Tre av mina reseskildringar från Sri Lanka: om att resa runt i det vackra lilla landet; om att dricka te och besöka teplantage.

• The essential guide to handling tourist traps around the world RES guide till världens turistfällor

• An interview with Jorden Runt, a travel website in Swedish En intervju med resewebsiten Jorden Runt

• And another interview with the same website, ten years earlier En tio år äldre intervju

Things left behind in Jamshedpur.

Some other published things...

In Swedish

• • The essential subaltern guides to Sweden (Subaltern #3-2007) and America (Subaltern #1-2005) (The whole catalogue of Subaltern issues etc is HERE) Subaltern har varit en sorts antologi i tidskriftsform där de olika numren behandlat diverse ting från jordens undergång till erotik. En utgåva handlade om Amerika – till vilken jag skrev den långa ingångsessän om mina resor runt USA – och en annan var tänkt som en alternativ Sverigeguide, där jag bidrog med ett avsnitt om ”Strömsholms kanal”.

• The ultimate book on cinema and cocktails Den stora boken om film och alkohol är utgiven av Filmkonst och i den finns naturligtvis ett kapitel om 1001 groggar i Bollywood.

• A short story for download Här kan man ladda ner novellen ”Konstnärens liv”

• A short story not for download (see also this review in Swedish) Här kan man inte ladda ner novellen ”Kioskägarens son”

In English

• • A piece from the Penguin anthology, Multiple City: Writings on Bangalore

  • A piece on Swedish crime fiction, Land of the Melancholic Cops

Photo: Anjum Hasan

The mixed bag - or relevant stuff discovered while surfing the net

In English

• • Interview made by Raghu Karnad, editor at Timeout Magazine in New Delhi

  • Article from Open Magazine on crime writing workshops in Sweden

  • Short interview with The Kathmandu Post

• Indian author C K Meena on me in The Hindu newspaper

• Photographer Raghav Shreyas, who is no more but "Table by the Window" has been released as a book: Table by the Window and Swedish crime fiction writers walk about Bengaluru

  • Review of the play "Cupid's Broken Arrow" directed by Prasanna and another article

  • Interesting article on detective fiction in Yuva Magazine

  • Interview in Mid-Day newspaper

In Swedish, some interviews and articles on important subjects  (Lite länkar till folk som skrivit om mig)

• http://bookydarling.blogspot.com/2009/10/zac-oyeah-jag-har-alltid-varit.html

• http://www.fria.nu/extern/epaper/fri/FRIA-09-08-29/pdfs/13.pdf

• http://blogg.aftonbladet.se/cissi/2009/08/kortintervju-zac-oyeah

• http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=121&a=405357&ref=rss

• http://www.interbib.se/default.asp?id=37055&ptid=4035

• http://www.ordfront.se/Ordfrontmagasin/Tidigare%20artiklar/Nattklubbskungen%20och%20livets%20mening.aspx

• A facebook club in my fictional city Gautampuri

• Wikipedia entry created by readers on the novel Tandooriälgen  (En wikipedia-sida om ”Tandooriälgen”)

• A page by writer Lisa Bjerre

• A page by photographer Anja Liljefors 

Must reads

In English:

• On the Indian bookstore boom

• On crime fiction set in India

  • Author Anita Nair writes on the Indo-Swedish translation project 

• Wikipedia entry for my wife Anjum_Hasan and her own website www.anjumhasan.com

• See also this comprehensive blog entry from writer Rimi B Chatterjee

• And articles on Anjum and Anjum and Anjum again

Not necessarily in English:

• Swedish Writers' Union, Stockholm: links to websites by Swedish writers Sveriges Författarförbunds lista på svenska författares hemsidor

• Poet Peter Curman on travelling with Jan Myrdal (though the claim that I was somehow gifted a white elephant is slightly exaggerated) Peter Curman skriver om hur det varit att resa runt i världen med Jan Myrdal och våra gemensamma resor i Indien nämns också

• A new bi-lingual cultural magazine Den svensk-finska kulturtidskriften Sheriffi

• The August Prize shortlists Om Augustpriset

• On Indian literature and more on Indian literature and review of Indian poetry in Swedish newspapers and online info on Indian literature (and here are some of my pieces: Asked to name my five favourite novels on India and A brief summary of Indian literature - very much the way I see it, and not necessairly the whole story) Diverse artiklar om indisk litteratur i svensk press

  • On Pankaj Mishra's much talked about Buddha-book in Swedish media one page and another and a third and fourth and fifth Om Pankaj Mishras bok ”Buddha i världen” som jag översatte

• Creative writing in India Skrivarkurser i Indien

• A Swedish blog on environmental and political questions by an ex-politician, worth following Birger Schlaugs blogg om politik och miljö

  • On mysterious things Om neuroteologi

• On eating out, why not, in New York Guide till att äta ute i New York

Music

Some songs I've co-written (with Twice A Man), available on CD (free MP3 audio samples online) "Noises of India" and "Shanti-Shanti" taken from the 2003 album "Agricultural Beauty" by Twice A Man, Gothenburg

The Swedish rockers Drift Band recorded a song based on experiences at my wedding, "An Old Monk in an Ambassador in the Rain" and here you can listen to the song

And here's the genuine Frank Zappa of Swedish heavy metal, with his band called Freak Kitchen. The other day I just co-wrote a hardrock song with these fellows... probably it'll be released sometime 2011 but the band might play it at concerts even before that. BREAKING NEWS: listen to the title song from the forthcoming movie "Once Upon a Time in Scandinavistan" (also known, in Swedish, as "Tandooriälgen")

...more to come!