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Priya Basil reads to school children
from »Ishq and Mushq« and
»The Obscure Logic of the Heart«
16 September 2010, 10:00
and
17 September 2010, 13:00
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Theatersaal
Berlin, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
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Africa 1960 – Looking back ahead
A cooperation between the International Literature Festival Berlin and the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
Priya will be part of a panel discussion about Africa fifty years after independence from various colonial powers. The other speakers are Nuruddin Farah and Théo Ananissoh.
18 September 2010, 5 pm
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Berlin, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
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Priya Basil on an obedient daughter in a hopeless situation
19 September 2010, 19.15
Literatures of the World
Deutsches Theater Berlin, Saal
Berlin, Schumannstraße 13
Author Priya Basil
Host Bernhard Robben
Speaker Julia Malik
They meet at the University of London: the humanist Muslim Lina and Anil, a Sikh with Kenyan roots. Priya Basil's novel »The Obscure Logic of the Heart« is about the relationship between two young second-generation immigrants, whose very different cultural identities put their love to the test and draw them into a maelstrom of social and political problems.
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author ('ɔːθə) n. a. a person who composes a book, article, or other written work b. someone who makes a difference
peace (piːs) n. a. the state existing during the absence of war b. just another word for everything to gain
World Peace Day Reading
To mark Peace Day 2010, Priya Basil, in cooperation with the international literature festival berlin, will host the world’s largest ever live-broadcast online reading. An international array of writers will share their thoughts about peace with the world.
21. September 2010, 0 - 24
Online: www.authorsforpeace.com
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Priya Basil runs a Creative Writing Workshop
23 September 2010, 8 –10.30
Weinmeister Haus
Berlin, Weinmeisterstraße 15
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New Voices in Women’s Fiction
Priya Basil, Jane Borodale and Anjali Joseph
Wednesday 6 October 2010, 7.45 - 9pm
Birmingham Conservatoire
Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HG
There is nothing quite like discovering a writer whose work moves you. A few voices stand out each year - here’s our pick of ones to watch.
Priya Basil: "The Obscure Logic of the Heart" is a profound love story between a Kenyan Sikh and a British Muslim who meet at University and hide their relationship from their families until a suitcase of letters falls into the wrong hands.
Complete Programme Birmingham Book Festival:
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Priya Basil reads from "The Obscure Logic of the Heart"
Priya’s book tells the love story between a Muslim girl, Lina, and a liberal Kenyan architecture student, Anil, both second-generation immigrants living in London. Due to their different backgrounds, Lina's relationship is in stark opposition to her parents' wishes, forcing her to make a choice between her family and her great love. She will read from her story and then discuss the novel with Vaani founder Smita Singh.
Tuesday 19 October 2010, 7 pm
Westminster Reference Library
35 St Martin’s Street
London WC2H 7HP
Host and Interviewer: Smita Singh
Admission Free
Nearest Tube: Leicester Square, Piccadilly Circus, Charing Cross
Buses: 11, 24, 29, 176 or any that go to Trafalgar Square or Charing Cross Road
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World Stories: Priya Basil
Sunday 24 October 2010, 1.30pm-2.30pm
Music School (to the right of the Cathedral)
Palace Green, Durham
Priya Basil's new novel, "The Obscure Logic of the Heart", takes us from the streets of Birmingham to the plains of Kenya and the refugee camps of Sudan to tell a story of two people trapped between the dictates of faith, family and love.
Complete Programme: Durham Book Festival
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Priya reads from "The Obscure Logic of the Heart"
in London at Queens Park Books on Thursday 27th January 2011, 7.30 pm
A devoted daughter; a secret love; an impossible dilemma... Lina has always been the apple of her father’s strict eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, cultured and decidedly liberal student of architecture from Kenya’s Asian community, the intensity of her feelings for someone so different takes her by surprise. She is political and he is not; she is of modest background and he is not; she is a Muslim and he is not … While Lina’s parents still dream of a suitable boy for their eldest daughter, she engages in an intricate game of deceit to hide her blossoming relationship. When Lina’s mother chances upon a suitcase of their love letters, a moral chasm threatens to tear the family and the lovers apart.
Queens Park Books
87 Salusbury Road, Queens Park
London NW6 6NH
Tel. 020 7625 1008
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3rd March 2011
World Book Day Celebrations
Family Reading Breakfast
Albemarle Primary School
Wimbledon/London
Priya Basil
reads from
"Strangers on the 16:02"
"Strangers on the 16:02" - thrilling tale about love, chance and a big secret, from a skilled British Asian author: It’s a hot, crowded train. Helen Summers is on her way to see her sister Jill to tell her an awful secret. Another passenger, Kerm, is on his way back from his grandfather’s funeral. They are strangers, jammed against each other in a crowded carriage. Noisy school kids fill the train – and three of them are about to cause a whole heap of trouble. In the chaos, Helen and Kerm are thrown together in a way they never expected. Catching a train? Read Strangers on the 16:02 and you’ll never feel the same way about your fellow passengers again.
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3rd March, 7.15pm - 9pm
Redbridge Library Service's
World Book Day Celebrations for 2011:
Priya Basil
reads from
"The Obscure Logic of the Heart"
and
"Strangers on the 16:02"
"The Obscure Logic of the Heart" - big-canvas, provocative new novel from the Commonwealth and Dylan Thomas prize longlisted young author of "Ishq and Mushq": A devoted daughter; a secret love; an impossible dilemma... Lina has always been the apple of her father’s strict eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, cultured and decidedly liberal student of architecture from Kenya’s Asian community, the intensity of her feelings for someone so different takes her by surprise. She is political and he is not; she is of modest background and he is not; she is a Muslim and he is not … While Lina’s parents still dream of a suitable boy for their eldest daughter, she engages in an intricate game of deceit to hide her blossoming relationship. When Lina’s mother chances upon a suitcase of their love letters, a moral chasm threatens to tear the family and the lovers apart.
"Strangers on the 16:02" - thrilling tale about love, chance and a big secret, from a skilled British Asian author: It’s a hot, crowded train. Helen Summers is on her way to see her sister Jill to tell her an awful secret. Another passenger, Kerm, is on his way back from his grandfather’s funeral. They are strangers, jammed against each other in a crowded carriage. Noisy school kids fill the train – and three of them are about to cause a whole heap of trouble. In the chaos, Helen and Kerm are thrown together in a way they never expected. Catching a train? Read Strangers on the 16:02 and you’ll never feel the same way about your fellow passengers again.
3rd March, 7.15pm to 9pm
Central Library, Ilford, London
Clements Road
Essex
Telephone: 020 8708 2414
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Not A Boys Club -
The Rise of Women in Asian Fiction
Priya Basil, Anjali Joseph,
Roma Tearne, Diane Wei Liang
London, Nehru Center
The Asian authors that get the most attention in the UK seem be predominantly male. But there are an increasing number of excellent Asian women writers coming to the forefront - and winning awards - in the world of both fiction and non-fiction. In recognition of International Women's Day, the Nehru Centre and the Pan-Asian Women's Association (PAWA) have gathered a panel of distinguished Asian women writers to discuss their writing, their influences and role models, their themes, how those themes are changing and the different perspectives women bring to the issues that effect people throughout Asia.
Friday, 11th March, 2011, 7pm -9pm
Nehru Center
8 S Audley St, London W1K 1HF
Tel 020 7491 3567
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In Conversation: Priya Basil & Aneesha Capur
13:00 15th Mar / The Bookworm, Beijing
In a world where more and more people are “third culture” – born in one country, raised in another and settled in a third – Aneesha Capur and Priya Basil, two Indian writers raised in Africa whose lives have taken them continents apart to Berlin and San Francisco talk on migration, multiculturalism and the politics of love, identity and belonging. Author of Ishq and Mushq and The Obscure Logic of the Heart, Basil is in conversation with Capur, author of Stealing Karma. 50rmb
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Creative Writing Workshop with Priya Basil
11:00 16th Mar / The Bookworm @ The Yin Yang, Beijing
The essence of a story is its characters. Drawn well, they can seem as real as friends. How can you breath life into simple words on the page? Where do fictional characters come from – imagination or experience? And how can you make them grow through the vagaries of plot? Priya Basil leads us through her methods, providing tips, exercises and scenarios. 11am-1pm 250 rmb
Writing Workshop For Teenagers with Priya Basil
14:30 18th Mar / Suzhou
The essence of a story is its characters. Drawn well, they can seem as real as friends. How can you breath life into simple words on the page? Where do fictional characters come from – imagination or experience? And how can you make them grow through the vagaries of plot? Priya Basil leads us through her methods, providing tips, exercises and scenarios.
Closing Night: Third Culture with Priya Basil
19:30 18th Mar / Suzhou
In a world where more and more people are “third culture” – born of one country, raised in another and settled in a third – Priya Basil, an British-Asian writer raised in Africa talk on migration, multiculturalism and the politics of love, identity and belonging.
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Redbridge Book and Media Festival 2011
15th May 2011, 3pm
at Valentines Mansion / Ilford / London
Priya Basil and Chan Ling Yap
"Love, Pain and Cheats"
presented by
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QUEEN’S PARK
BOOK FESTIVAL
SATURDAY JUNE 11th, 2011
Priya Basil: The Obscure Logic of the Heart
Priya will read from and discuss her new novel, The Obscure Logic of the Heart, and talk about Authors for Peace - the organization she co-founded in July 2010.
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Priya reads from "The Obscure Logic of the Heart"
in Paris at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop
on 20th June 2011.
"A searing love story ... burns and scorches with wry conviction about young love that refuses to say die."
India Today
A devoted daughter; a secret love; an impossible dilemma...
Lina has always been the apple of her father’s strict eye. When she meets Anil, a wealthy, cultured and decidedly liberal student of architecture from Kenya’s Asian community, the intensity of her feelings for someone so different takes her by surprise. She is political and he is not; she is of modest background and he is not; she is a Muslim and he is not …
While Lina’s parents still dream of a suitable boy for their eldest daughter, she engages in an intricate game of deceit to hide her blossoming relationship. When Lina’s mother chances upon a suitcase of their love letters, a moral chasm threatens to tear the family and the lovers apart.
"Priya has done a wonderful job of characterisation."
New Woman
"What really sets this book apart from others is the beautiful prose used by the author. The descriptions that she uses are breathtaking and you really feel as though you are there with the characters, seeing everything that they are able to see... the ending was so powerful that it will remain with you long after you have finished."
Chrissie'sCorner.co.uk
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July 30 2011, 2:45 PM
Book Club - Asian Authors / Books about Asia
Priya Basil "The Obscure Logic of the Heart"
and Kate Hoyland "The Icarus Diaries"
The Obscure Logic of the Heart interweaves two narratives: one intimate, one epic. From the streets of Birmingham to the plains of Kenya, and the refugee camps of Sudan, this page-turning story examines the tumultuous lives of two people trapped between the dictates of faith, family and love.
"The book is beautiful and rich in prose, bold and deeply moving. The story is brilliantly narrated. It has characters that you will remember for days to come. A highly recommended book which you must pick up today, if you haven’t already! This book has to be at the top of your to read list!"
thebookloversreview
Saturday, July 30, 2011
2:45 PM
Cinnamon Club
30-32 Great Smith St London
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Priya reads from "The Obscure Logic of the Heart"
in Berlin at the Kreuzberg-Bookclub on Friday 26th August 2011, 7.30 pm
Redbridge Book and Media Festival
30 April 2008, Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom
Oxford Literary Festival
6 April 2008, Oxford, United Kingdom
Shanghai Literary Festival
8-10 March 2008, Shanghai, China
The Man Hong Kong International Literary Festival
2-10 March 2008, Hong Kong, China
Crossing Border Festival
21-25 November 2007, The Hague, Netherlands
http://www.crossingborder.nl
Reading at Poetry Society, London
9 November 2007
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/
Reading at Kaffee Burger
31 October 2007, Berlin, Germany
Reading at University of Leipzig
12 July 2007, Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de
Debut Authors Festival
9 June 2007, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
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