Priya Basil
Priya Basil was born in London to a family with Indian roots and grew up in Kenya. She is a novelist and essay-writer whose work has been nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is the co-founder of Authors for Peace, a political platform for writers and artists. She lives in Berlin.
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Being a good host is about more than just the food
“The French philosopher Alain Badiou wrote: ‘Love begins when something impossible is overcome.’ The same could be said of hospitality: the act of accepting from another, of receiving the other, only begins, only touches the rim of true hospitability, when it pushes you beyond your limits, discomfits you, allows in the unexpected, brings about what you never imagined.”
Priya Basil, author of Be My Guest, writes in the Observer about what it means to be a host – on the domestic and family level, and as a country receiving new arrivals.
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