Summary: The Business of Creativity | Adib Khan <strong>The Business of Creativity: the Tension between Aesthetics and Commerce in Serious Fiction</strong> A presentation for staff and postgraduates. Adib Khan is the author of five novels. His first novel, <em>Seasonal Adjustments</em> won the Christina Stead Prize for fiction and the Book of the Year in the 1994 New South Wales Premier’s Prize, and won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for First Book. His second novel, <em>Solitude of Illusions</em> was shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for fiction and the Ethnic Commission Award in the 1997 New South Wales Premier’s Prize, and won the 1997 Tilly Aston Braille Book of the Year Award. His other novels are <em>The Storyteller</em> and <em>Homecoming</em>. His latest work <em>Spiral Road</em> was listed among the twenty books for the 2008 State Library of Victoria’s summer reading program. Currently, Adib is a PhD (Creative Writing) Scholar, Centre for Postcolonial Writing.
