{{Short description|English writer and journalist (born 1969)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Weasel|date=August 2022}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2022}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} '''Tarquin Hall''' is an English writer and journalist. He was born in London, in 1969, to an English father and American mother.<ref>{{cite web|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|url=http://tarquinhall.com/bio/|title=Tarquin Hall Bio|access-date=5 August 2012}}</ref> Hall has spent much of his adult life away from England, living in the United States, Pakistan, India, Kenya and Turkey, and travelling in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia.
==News reporter== Hall has worked in TV news and is a former South Asia bureau chief of Associated Press TV, based in New Delhi. He has written features on Wilfred Thesiger, Texan rattlesnake hunters, the Taliban, and British-Asian Urdu poets. Hall's reports include a profile on Emma McCune, an English woman who married Southern Sudanese guerrilla commander Riek Machar; the draining of Iraq's marshes by Saddam Hussein; and a one-on-one with Abdullah Öcalan, the former leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), in a Syrian safe house.
==Novelist== He is the author of seven books and dozens of articles that have appeared in many British newspapers and magazines, including the ''Times'', ''Sunday Times'', ''Daily Telegraph'', ''Observer'' and ''New Statesman''. Hall's books have received praise in the British press, as did ''To the Elephant Graveyard'' and ''Salaam Brick Lane<ref name="Rushby">{{cite web |last=Rushby |first=Kevin |date=16 April 2005 |title=Way out East, innit? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/16/highereducation.biography |access-date=17 May 2010 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>'', which recounts a year spent above a Bangladeshi sweatshop on Brick Lane (in the East End of London).<ref name="Simon & Schuster" />
In 2009, Hall published his first mystery novel ''The Case of the Missing Servant,'' introducing the fictional Punjabi character Vish Puri, India's Most Private Investigator. The second in the series, ''The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing'', was released in June 2010.<ref name="Hall">{{cite web|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=Tarquin Hall's webpage.|url=http://tarquinhall.com/?page_id=220|access-date=17 May 2010}}</ref> The third, ''The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken'', was released in July 2012. The fourth title, ''The Case of the Love Commandos'', released in October 2013, features the real-life Love Commandos, a volunteer team of Indians who try to ease the way for marriages between Hindus of different classes.<ref name=Butki>{{cite web|last=Butki|first=Scott|title=Interview with Tarquin Hall, Author of 'The Case of the Love Commandos'|date=8 October 2013 |url=http://blogcritics.org/an-interview-with-tarquin-hall-author-of-the-mystery-the-case-of-the-love-commandos/|publisher=BC|access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref> Meanwhile, Hall has self-published ''The Delhi Detectives Handbook,'' which chronicles Vish Puri's world and is written in the detective's humble-bragging voice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2093339671/the-delhi-detectives-handbook-by-vish-puri-and-tar|title=The Delhi Detective's Handbook by Vish Puri (& Tarquin Hall)|website=Kickstarter|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-22}}</ref>
==Executive roles== For a number of years, Hall held the office of chief executive officer (CEO) of the educational and cultural charity, The Idries Shah Foundation.<ref name="ISF CEO">{{cite web | last = Staff | title = Once Upon a Time in My Future... | work = Language Magazine | date = 25 June 2020 | url = https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/06/25/once-upon-a-time-in-my-future/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210526165851/https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/06/25/once-upon-a-time-in-my-future/ | url-status = live | archive-date = 26 May 2021 | access-date = 26 May 2021}}</ref> With the re-publication of all of Idries Shah's books, and a streamlining of the charity's operations to ensure its long-term viability, Hall stepped-down as CEO in May 2024.<ref name="ISF New Phase">{{cite web | last1 = Shah | first1 = Saira | last2 = The Trustees | title = A New Phase for ISF – Saira Shah | work = The Idries Shah Foundation | date = 23 May 2024 | url = https://idriesshahfoundation.org/a-new-phase-for-isf/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240523103939/https://idriesshahfoundation.org/a-new-phase-for-isf/ | archive-date = 23 May 2024 | url-status = live | access-date = 23 May 2024 }}</ref>
==Personal life== Hall lives in the UK<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/tarquinhall?lang=en|title=Tarquin Hall (@tarquinhall) {{!}} Twitter|via=Twitter|language=en|access-date=2018-10-22}}</ref> after six years in New Delhi.<ref name="Butki" /><ref name="Anu">{{cite web|last=Anand|first=Anu|title=Anu Anand's blog.|url=http://sacredcows.typepad.com/about.html|access-date=17 May 2010}}</ref> He is married to the Indian-born American BBC reporter and presenter Anu Anand.<ref name="Simon & Schuster">{{cite web|title=Tarquin Hall: Biography|url=http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Tarquin-Hall/46978953/biography|publisher=Simon & Schuster|access-date=17 May 2010}}</ref> They have two children.<ref name="Anu" />
==Works== *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=Spectrum Guide to Namibia|year=1994|publisher=Moorland|isbn=978-0-86190-376-4|author2=Amin, Mohamed}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=Mercenaries, Missionaries and Misfits: Adventures of an Under-age Journalist|year=1996|publisher=Muncaster|isbn=978-0-9527412-0-6}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=To the Elephant Graveyard|year=2000|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=978-0-87113-817-0}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=Salaam Brick Lane: A Year in the New East End|year=2005|publisher=John Murray|isbn=978-0-7195-6157-3}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=The Case of the Missing Servant:From the Files of Vish Puri, India's "Most Private Investigator"|year=2008|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-8368-4|url=https://archive.org/details/caseofmissingser00hall}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing: A Vish Puri Mystery|year=2010|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1-4165-8369-1|url=https://archive.org/details/caseofmanwhodied00hall}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken: From the Files of Vish Puri, India's "Most Private Investigator"|year=2012|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-1315-5|url=https://archive.org/details/caseofdeadlybutt00hall}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=The Case of the Love Commandos|year=2013|publisher=Simon & Schuster}} *{{cite book|last=Hall|first=Tarquin|title=The Case of the Reincarnated Client: a Vish Puri Mystery|year=2019|publisher=Severn House Publishers}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://readingandwritingpodcast.com/018-reading-and-writing-podcast-tarquin-hall-interview/ Audio interview with Tarquin Hall discussing his first mystery novel – ''The Case of the Missing Servant''] *[http://www.vishpuri.com/ Vish Puri]
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