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39_56	See also Mattituck Airport References External links
39_57	Southold, New York Census-designated places in New York (state) Hamlets in New York (state)
39_58	Census-designated places in Suffolk County, New York Hamlets in Suffolk County, New York
39_59	Populated coastal places in New York (state)
40_0	Priya Basil (born 1977 in London, England) is a British author and political activist. Her work has
40_1	been translated into over half a dozen languages, and her first novel was shortlisted for the
40_2	Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace and an initiator of the
40_3	movement Writers Against Mass Surveillance.
40_4	Writing
40_5	Her first novel, Ishq and Mushq, was published in 2007. Ishq and Mushq is a family saga which
40_6	illuminates the problem of cultural identity for immigrants over several generations, and raises
40_7	questions of memory, exile and self-rediscovery. Ishq and Mushq came second in the World Book Day
40_8	"Book to Talk About 2008" competition. The novel was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers'
40_9	Prize, and long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award.
40_10	Her second novel, The Obscure Logic of the Heart, was published in June 2010. It tells the love
40_11	story between the Muslim Lina and the secular Kenyan architecture student, Anil. The characters are
40_12	caught in the maelstrom of socio-political problems as they try to negotiate between different
40_13	loyalties – to family, faith, society and themselves.
40_14	Priya's novella Strangers on the 16:02 is published on 17 February 2011.
40_15	Basil’s work has been translated into Italian, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese,
40_16	Dutch, Croatian, and Serbian.
40_17	In autumn 2014, Priya Basil took up the prestigious Writers' Lectureship at the University of
40_18	Tübingen. She shared the honour with Chika Unigwe. Taiye Selasi, and Nii Ayikwei Parkes also gave
40_19	supporting lectures.
40_20	Basil's other writings have been published in The Guardian, and the Asia Literary Review, She is a
40_21	regular contributor to Lettre International, the leading German-language literary magazine. Her
40_22	themes include art, Europe, democracy, migration and (neo-)colonialism.
40_23	Political work
40_24	In 2010, Priya co-founded Authors for Peace. with the journalist Matthias Fredrich-Auf der Horst.
40_25	It is intended to be a platform from which writers can actively use literature in different ways to
40_26	promote peace. The first event by Authors for Peace took place on 21 September 2010, the UN's
40_27	International Day of Peace. With the support of the International Literature Festival Berlin, Priya
40_28	hosted a 24hour-live-online-reading by 80 authors from all over the world. The authors read from
40_29	their work in a gesture of solidarity with those who are oppressed or caught in conflict.
40_30	In September 2013, Basil signed the German novelist Juli Zeh's Open Letter to Angela Merkel. The
40_31	letter criticizes Merkel's reaction to the Snowden revelations and demands a more robust response.
40_32	Priya Basil read this letter aloud in public on the opening day of the International Literature
40_33	Festival Berlin, as part of the festival's 'Berlin Liest' (Berlin Reads) initiative. Later, she
40_34	helped organize, and took part in the anti-surveillance protest action 'March on the Chancellory',
40_35	led by Zeh on 18 September 2013.
40_36	Basil is also one of the initiators of 'Writers Against Mass Surveillance', a worldwide movement
40_37	against mass surveillance that was launched on 10 December 2013. Basil is one of the group of seven
40_38	international writers who wrote the appeal, gathered the first 560 signatures from world-famous
40_39	writers, and organized the global launch of the appeal. The other initiators are Juli Zeh, Ilija
40_40	Trojanow, Eva Menasse, Janne Teller, Isabel Cole and Josef Haslinger. The appeal was published
40_41	through exclusive deals with leading newspapers in more than thirty countries worldwide, for
40_42	example in Germany the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and is also an online pledge at Change.org
40_43	which the general public can sign.
40_44	Basil continues to be active against mass surveillance. She spoke at Re:publica Berlin 2014, and
40_45	has published essays and articles about the threat mass surveillance poses to democracy and
40_46	individual freedom, including in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel and the
40_47	Danish newspaper Politiken.
40_48	BücherFrauen, a co-operation of 800 Women from the German Publishing Industry, puts forward an
40_49	annual list of female candidates for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2013,
40_50	2014 and 2015 Priya Basil was one of the 20-odd recommended writers on a list which included Hannah
40_51	Arendt, Arundhati Roy, Nawal El Saadawi, Herta Müller and Juli Zeh.
40_52	In 2017 Priya Basil, together with Ulrich Schreiber, conceptualized and co-curated the
40_53	International Congress for Freedom and Democracy, which took place from 8–10 September 2017 as part
40_54	of the International Literature Festival Berlin.
40_55	Basil has written extensively on Europe and the future of the European Union, and has argued about
40_56	the need for an official European public holiday across all member states. In 2017 she launched a
40_57	campaign, which includes a petition on change.org, for the establishment of such a day. In 2018, at
40_58	the invitation of Sonja Longolius and Janika Gelinek, directors of the Literaturhaus Berlin, she
40_59	curates A European Holiday! – an event intended not just as a cultural extravaganza but as a
40_60	political intervention – another step towards making the idea of such a day reality.
40_61	Personal life
40_62	Priya grew up in Kenya, returning to the UK to study English literature at the University of
40_63	Bristol. She had a brief career in advertising before becoming a full-time writer.
40_64	Basil now lives in Berlin. Wired called her "a British, Kenyan, Indian, German-resident
40_65	fiction-writer. Priya is another of those contemporary novelists whose life wouldn't do within a
40_66	novel, because it's simply too implausible".
40_67	Bibliography
40_68	Ishq and Mushq, 2007 (Hardback , Paperback )
40_69	The Obscure Logic of the Heart, 2010 (Trade Paperback ; Paperback and )
40_70	Strangers on the 16:02, 2011 (Paperback )
40_71	Erzählte Wirklichkeiten: Tübinger Poetik Dozentur 2014 (Poetics lectures, in German, with Chika
40_72	Unigwe, Paperback )
40_73	Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity, non-fiction, 2019
40_74	(Hardback )
40_75	External links Videos
40_76	Priya Basil On Reading and Writing
40_77	Priya Basil "Heart – Bite"-Quotes The Obscure Logic of the Heart
40_78	Priya Basil Strangers on the 16:02 – Train Rides 1–12
40_79	Priya Basil "Literary Bridge" – a virtual Join me on the Bridge event initiated by Priya and
40_80	Authors for Peace for Women for Women International in honour of the 100th anniversary of
40_81	International Women's Day
40_82	Reviews
40_83	Brinda Bose on Ishq and Mushq, India Today (26 March 2007) "Spice Route to Soul"
40_84	James Urquhart on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, Financial Times (8.7.2011): "Basil's novel is
40_85	subtly played out; passionate and intelligent in scope."
40_86	Eve Lucas on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, ExBerliner (June 2010): "Basil's maturity as a writer
40_87	is newly reflected in characters whose emotional, ideological and political lives are closely
40_88	intertwined-redolent of the complex personalities created by writers such as C.P Snow and Evelyn
40_89	Waugh... Basil spans a large canvas of well observed and entirely credible third world nepotism
40_90	against which Lina's work for a better world appears as a cry in the desert. Woven into the bigger
40_91	picture are many small, luminous threads of conversational snippets, situational snapshots, the
40_92	humdrum of life lovingly seen and recorded. The micro- and the macrocosm are bound together by all
40_93	that happens in between and above all, in-between people. The book flows at all levels, but here,
40_94	for me, is Basil's true strength: her interest in people, her sympathy with them, and the way she
40_95	brings this to bear on her narratives."

39_56

See also Mattituck Airport References External links

39_57

Southold, New York Census-designated places in New York (state) Hamlets in New York (state)

39_58

Census-designated places in Suffolk County, New York Hamlets in Suffolk County, New York

39_59

Populated coastal places in New York (state)

40_0

Priya Basil (born 1977 in London, England) is a British author and political activist. Her work has

40_1

been translated into over half a dozen languages, and her first novel was shortlisted for the

40_2

Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace and an initiator of the

40_3

movement Writers Against Mass Surveillance.

40_4

Writing

40_5

Her first novel, Ishq and Mushq, was published in 2007. Ishq and Mushq is a family saga which

40_6

illuminates the problem of cultural identity for immigrants over several generations, and raises

40_7

questions of memory, exile and self-rediscovery. Ishq and Mushq came second in the World Book Day

40_8

"Book to Talk About 2008" competition. The novel was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers'

40_9

Prize, and long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award.

40_10

Her second novel, The Obscure Logic of the Heart, was published in June 2010. It tells the love

40_11

story between the Muslim Lina and the secular Kenyan architecture student, Anil. The characters are

40_12

caught in the maelstrom of socio-political problems as they try to negotiate between different

40_13

loyalties – to family, faith, society and themselves.

40_14

Priya's novella Strangers on the 16:02 is published on 17 February 2011.

40_15

Basil’s work has been translated into Italian, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese,

40_16

Dutch, Croatian, and Serbian.

40_17

In autumn 2014, Priya Basil took up the prestigious Writers' Lectureship at the University of

40_18

Tübingen. She shared the honour with Chika Unigwe. Taiye Selasi, and Nii Ayikwei Parkes also gave

40_19

supporting lectures.

40_20

Basil's other writings have been published in The Guardian, and the Asia Literary Review, She is a

40_21

regular contributor to Lettre International, the leading German-language literary magazine. Her

40_22

themes include art, Europe, democracy, migration and (neo-)colonialism.

40_23

Political work

40_24

In 2010, Priya co-founded Authors for Peace. with the journalist Matthias Fredrich-Auf der Horst.

40_25

It is intended to be a platform from which writers can actively use literature in different ways to

40_26

promote peace. The first event by Authors for Peace took place on 21 September 2010, the UN's

40_27

International Day of Peace. With the support of the International Literature Festival Berlin, Priya

40_28

hosted a 24hour-live-online-reading by 80 authors from all over the world. The authors read from

40_29

their work in a gesture of solidarity with those who are oppressed or caught in conflict.

40_30

In September 2013, Basil signed the German novelist Juli Zeh's Open Letter to Angela Merkel. The

40_31

letter criticizes Merkel's reaction to the Snowden revelations and demands a more robust response.

40_32

Priya Basil read this letter aloud in public on the opening day of the International Literature

40_33

Festival Berlin, as part of the festival's 'Berlin Liest' (Berlin Reads) initiative. Later, she

40_34

helped organize, and took part in the anti-surveillance protest action 'March on the Chancellory',

40_35

led by Zeh on 18 September 2013.

40_36

Basil is also one of the initiators of 'Writers Against Mass Surveillance', a worldwide movement

40_37

against mass surveillance that was launched on 10 December 2013. Basil is one of the group of seven

40_38

international writers who wrote the appeal, gathered the first 560 signatures from world-famous

40_39

writers, and organized the global launch of the appeal. The other initiators are Juli Zeh, Ilija

40_40

Trojanow, Eva Menasse, Janne Teller, Isabel Cole and Josef Haslinger. The appeal was published

40_41

through exclusive deals with leading newspapers in more than thirty countries worldwide, for

40_42

example in Germany the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and is also an online pledge at Change.org

40_43

which the general public can sign.

40_44

Basil continues to be active against mass surveillance. She spoke at Re:publica Berlin 2014, and

40_45

has published essays and articles about the threat mass surveillance poses to democracy and

40_46

individual freedom, including in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Tagesspiegel and the

40_47

Danish newspaper Politiken.

40_48

BücherFrauen, a co-operation of 800 Women from the German Publishing Industry, puts forward an

40_49

annual list of female candidates for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2013,

40_50

2014 and 2015 Priya Basil was one of the 20-odd recommended writers on a list which included Hannah

40_51

Arendt, Arundhati Roy, Nawal El Saadawi, Herta Müller and Juli Zeh.

40_52

In 2017 Priya Basil, together with Ulrich Schreiber, conceptualized and co-curated the

40_53

International Congress for Freedom and Democracy, which took place from 8–10 September 2017 as part

40_54

of the International Literature Festival Berlin.

40_55

Basil has written extensively on Europe and the future of the European Union, and has argued about

40_56

the need for an official European public holiday across all member states. In 2017 she launched a

40_57

campaign, which includes a petition on change.org, for the establishment of such a day. In 2018, at

40_58

the invitation of Sonja Longolius and Janika Gelinek, directors of the Literaturhaus Berlin, she

40_59

curates A European Holiday! – an event intended not just as a cultural extravaganza but as a

40_60

political intervention – another step towards making the idea of such a day reality.

40_61

Personal life

40_62

Priya grew up in Kenya, returning to the UK to study English literature at the University of

40_63

Bristol. She had a brief career in advertising before becoming a full-time writer.

40_64

Basil now lives in Berlin. Wired called her "a British, Kenyan, Indian, German-resident

40_65

fiction-writer. Priya is another of those contemporary novelists whose life wouldn't do within a

40_66

novel, because it's simply too implausible".

40_67

Bibliography

40_68

Ishq and Mushq, 2007 (Hardback , Paperback )

40_69

The Obscure Logic of the Heart, 2010 (Trade Paperback ; Paperback and )

40_70

Strangers on the 16:02, 2011 (Paperback )

40_71

Erzählte Wirklichkeiten: Tübinger Poetik Dozentur 2014 (Poetics lectures, in German, with Chika

40_72

Unigwe, Paperback )

40_73

Be My Guest: Reflections on Food, Community and the Meaning of Generosity, non-fiction, 2019

40_74

(Hardback )

40_75

External links Videos

40_76

Priya Basil On Reading and Writing

40_77

Priya Basil "Heart – Bite"-Quotes The Obscure Logic of the Heart

40_78

Priya Basil Strangers on the 16:02 – Train Rides 1–12

40_79

Priya Basil "Literary Bridge" – a virtual Join me on the Bridge event initiated by Priya and

40_80

Authors for Peace for Women for Women International in honour of the 100th anniversary of

40_81

International Women's Day

40_82

Reviews

40_83

Brinda Bose on Ishq and Mushq, India Today (26 March 2007) "Spice Route to Soul"

40_84

James Urquhart on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, Financial Times (8.7.2011): "Basil's novel is

40_85

subtly played out; passionate and intelligent in scope."

40_86

Eve Lucas on The Obscure Logic of the Heart, ExBerliner (June 2010): "Basil's maturity as a writer

40_87

is newly reflected in characters whose emotional, ideological and political lives are closely

40_88

intertwined-redolent of the complex personalities created by writers such as C.P Snow and Evelyn

40_89

Waugh... Basil spans a large canvas of well observed and entirely credible third world nepotism

40_90

against which Lina's work for a better world appears as a cry in the desert. Woven into the bigger

40_91

picture are many small, luminous threads of conversational snippets, situational snapshots, the

40_92

humdrum of life lovingly seen and recorded. The micro- and the macrocosm are bound together by all

40_93

that happens in between and above all, in-between people. The book flows at all levels, but here,

40_94

for me, is Basil's true strength: her interest in people, her sympathy with them, and the way she

40_95

brings this to bear on her narratives."