Priya Basil

Quick Facts

Full Name	Priya Basil
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Mar 27, 1977(1977-03-27)
Age	47
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Pisces

Priya Basil Biography

Priya Basil is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on March 27, 1977 in London, England, United Kingdom. Priya Basil, a British author and activist was born in London, England in 1977. Her work has been translated in over fifty-six languages and her first novel was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Authors for Peace was founded by her and she is also the initiator of Writers Against Mass Surveillance.

Priya’s novella Strangers about the 16:02 was published on 17 Feb 2011.

Basil is also one of the initiators of ‘Writers Against Mass Surveillance’, a worldwide movement against mass surveillance that was launched on 10 December

2013. Basil is one of the group of seven international writers who wrote the appeal, gathered the first 560 signatures from world-famous writers, and organized the global launch of the appeal. The other initiators are Juli Zeh, Ilija Trojanow, Eva Menasse, Janne Teller, Isabel Cole and Josef Haslinger. The appeal was published through exclusive deals with leading newspapers in more than thirty countries worldwide, for example in Germany the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and is also an online pledge at Change.org which the general public can sign.

In September 2013, Basil signed the German novelist Juli Zeh’s Open Letter to Angela Merkel. The letter criticizes Merkel’s reaction to the Snowden revelations and demands a more robust response. Priya Basil read this letter aloud in public on the opening day of the International Literature Festival Berlin, as part of the festival’s ‘Berlin Liest’ (Berlin Reads) initiative. Later, she helped organize, and took part in the anti-surveillance protest action ‘March on the Chancellory’, led by Zeh on 18 September 2013.

In June 2010, her second novel, The Obscure Logic of the Heart was published. It is the story of Lina, a Muslim woman, and Anil, a secular Kenyan architect student. As they attempt to navigate between their different loyalties to society, family, and faith, the characters find themselves caught up in the socio-political maelstrom.

Priya Basil Net Worth

Priya Basil is one of the richest Author from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Priya Basil 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 2007, she published her first novel, Ishq & Mushq. Ishq & Mushq is a family story that explores the issue of cultural identity in immigrant families over many generations. It also raises questions about memory, exile, and self- rediscovery. Ishq & Mushq placed second in the World Book Day 2008 “Book to Talk About” competition. The novel was also shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize. It was long-listed to receive the Dylan Thomas Prize as well as the International Dublin Literary Award.

Priya founded Authors for Peace in 2010. Matthias Fredrich-Auf der Horst, a journalist. The platform is meant to allow writers to actively promote peace through literature. Authors for Peace’s first event took place on the 21st of September 2010, UN’s International Day of Peace. With the support of the International Literature Festival Berlin, Priya hosted a 24hour-live-online- reading by 80 authors from all over the world. In solidarity with oppressed and conflict-affected people, the authors read from their works.

BücherFrauen, a co-operation of 800 Women from the German Publishing Industry, puts forward an annual list of female candidates for the prestigious Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2013, 2014 and 2015 Priya Basil was one of the 20-odd recommended writers on a list which included Hannah Arendt, Arundhati Roy, Nawal El Saadawi, Herta Müller and Juli Zeh.

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Basil’s work has been translated into Italian, German, Russian, Bulgarian, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Croatian, and Serbian.

Facts & Trivia

Priya Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Priya Basil celebrates birthday on March 27 of every year.