Vijay Khurana
{{short description|Australian radio announcer}}
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Vijay Khurana is an Australian writer and radio announcer, who has worked on radio stations 2SER{{cite web |title=2ser 40th Birthday: Vijay Khurana |url=https://2ser.com/2ser-40th-birthday-vijay-khurana/ |website=2SER 107.3 |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}} and Triple J.{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/corp/communications/s2508459.htm|title=triple j's Hottest 100 rocks Australia Day|date=3 May 2009|publisher=ABC Online|accessdate=25 September 2010}}
Radio career
Starting at 2SER in 2004, he first hosted the 3am-6am slot with his co-host Andre Leslie, which they called 'The Peruvian Lunch.' They went on to host weekday breakfast together, and Khurana subsequently hosted the Drive show. Moving to Triple J in 2005, he hosted shifts including the mid-dawn shift during the week and fill-in shifts.
On 14 April 2007, Khurana started his role as weekend lunch presenter on Triple J (10am-2pm), replacing previous presenter Gaby Brown.
On 6 December 2007, Vijay Khurana was announced as weekday lunch presenter on Triple J (12-3pm), replacing previous presenter Linda Marigliano, who in turn replaced Robbie Buck on the weekday Drive show (3pm-5.30pm) alongside Scott Dooley (Dools).
Khurana finished his last day on Triple J on 25 February 2011. He moved to Cambodia to work for a non-profit radio station in Phnom Penh.{{cite web |title=Vijay Khurana leaving triple j |url=https://radioinfo.com.au/news/vijay-khurana-leaving-triple-j/ |website=Radioinfo |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}}
TV career
On 27 July 2007, Khurana made his debut appearance on TV, presenting jtv.
Writing career
In 2014 Khurana published a children's novel, Regal Beagle, about a dog who becomes a queen.{{cite web |title=Regal Beagle |url=https://www.penguin.co.nz/books/regal-beagle-9780857983718 |website=Penguin Books |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}} It was illustrated by Simon Greiner.
In 2019 he received his MFA in writing from the University of East Anglia.{{cite web |title=Vijay Khurana runner-up for Cúirt New Writing Prize |url=https://www.newwriting.net/2021/04/vijay-khurana-runner-up-for-cuirt-new-writing-prize/ |website=New Writing |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}}
His short fiction was twice shortlisted for the Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. His work was also shortlisted for the Bath Short Story Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize, and the Bristol Short Story Prize.{{cite web |title=Work |url=https://www.vijaykhurana.com/work/ |website=Vijay Khurana |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}} In 2021 he won the 2021 Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition for his short story, 'The Menaced Assassin.'{{cite web |title=Vijay Khurana wins Griffith Review Emerging Voices competition |url=https://www.newwriting.net/2021/07/vijay-khurana-wins-griffith-review-emerging-voices-competition/ |website=New Writing |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}} Khurana's work has appeared in NOON, 3:AM Magazine, and Erotic Review.
In 2022 Khurana's debut novel, The Passenger Seat, was shortlisted for the Novel Prize, awarded jointly by Fitzcarraldo, New Directions, and Giramondo.{{cite web |title=Announcing the 2022 Novel Prize shortlist |url=https://giramondopublishing.com/announcing-the-novel-prize-2022-shortlist/ |website=Giramondo Publishing |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}} It was published in 2025 by Peninsula Press, Biblioasis, and Ultimo Press.{{cite web |title=Vijay Khurana |url=https://greyhoundliterary.co.uk/authors/vijay-khurana |website=Greyhound Literary |access-date=Nov 12, 2024}}
Khurana is also a translator from the German into English. His translation of 'The Autopsy' by Georg Heym was published by Scratch Classics. An excerpt from his translation of Red (Hunger) by Senthuran Varatharajah was published in 2024 in The White Review Translation Anthology.
Khurana is married to the Australian writer Madeleine Watts.
References
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External links
- [https://www.vijaykhurana.com Vijay Khurana's Website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070910221038/http://www.aftrs.edu.au/xfm/profilevijay.htm Vijay Khurana's page on the XFM website]
- [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/people/vijay_khurana.htm Vijay Khurana's page on the Triple J website]
- [http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/lunch/default.htm Vijay's Triple J lunch website]
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Category:Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Category:Australian children's writers
Category:Australian expatriates in Germany