Priya Basil

Priya Basil is a British and German author and political activist. Her work has been translated into over half a dozen languages, and her first novel was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She is co-founder and board member of WIR MACHEN DAS, an organisation working with refugees and migrants. Basil is a member of the advisory board of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights. She has conceptualised and curated projects for various institutions including the Goethe-Institut, the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin and the International Literature Festival Berlin. Priya was curator of Europe's Kitchen, a multidisciplinary, Europe-wide series of events that she conceptualized with the Goethe-Institute to mark Germany's EU Council Presidency from July to December 2020. Since 2021, Priya Basil is curator of the ongoing event series Objects Talk Back at the Humboldt Forum, Berlin. And she is also editor of a related book series.