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Priya Basil (born 1977 in London, England) is a British author.

Her first novel, Ishq and Mushq, was published in 2007 [1]. It came second in the World Book Day "Book to Talk About 2008" [2] competition. The novel was also short-listed for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize [3], and long-listed for the Dylan Thomas Award [4] and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award [5]. Ishq and Mushq was translated into Dutch [6], Portuguese [7], Russian [8] and Serbian [9].

Her second novel, The Obscure Logic of the Heart [10], will be published in June 2010.


Personal Life

Priya grew up in Kenya, returning to the UK to study English Literature at the University of Bristol. She had a career in advertising before becoming a full time writer. She lives currently in London and Berlin.

Priya beliefs that we need to change the culture of giving in a world that contains both great affluence and extreme poverty. She signed Peter Singer's The Life you Can Save-Pledge [11]. If everyone who can afford to contribute to reducing extreme poverty were to give a modest proportion of their income to effective organizations fighting extreme poverty, the problem could be solved.


Bibliography

  • Ishq and Mushq (Hardback ISBN: 0385611420, Paperback ISBN: 0552773840)
  • The Obscure Logic of the Heart (Hardback ISBN: 0385611447)


Videos

  • Priya Basil On Reading and Writing [12]


Reviews

  • Brinda Bose, India Today (26.3.2007) "Spice Route to Soul" [13]
  • Margaret Forster on Ishq and Mushq: "Priya Basil has something all of her own, an emotional intensity and flashes of imagination. She is anyone’s equal. I greatly admired and enjoyed this novel." [14]


Articles

  • Shanghai City Weekend Editor "emilyc"'s Live-Blog on Ishq and Mushq [15]
  • Priya Basil on Pushing the Limit and Life as Translation, Chronicles, Crossing Border Festival, The Hague (November 2007) [16]


Notes

  1. ^ [1] Transworld (Publisher)
  2. ^ [2] Book to Talk About 2008
  3. ^ [3] Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2008
  4. ^ [4] Dylan Thomas Award 2008
  5. ^ [5] IMPAC Award 2009
  6. ^ [6] Arena (Publisher)
  7. ^ [7] Nova Fronteira (Publisher)
  8. ^ [8] ACT (Publisher)
  9. ^ [9] Books & Marso (Publisher)
  10. ^ [10] Transworld (Publisher)
  11. ^ [11] The Life You Can Save
  12. ^ [12] PriyaBasilChannel, YouTube, 21.2.2010
  13. ^ [13] India Today, 26.3.2007
  14. ^ [14] Dipnet.org, 2007
  15. ^ [15] Shanghai City Magazine, 8.3.2008
  16. ^ [16] Crossing Border Festival, November 2007


References

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