Nuril Basri was born in Tangerang, Indonesia. He writes tragicomedies and bildungsromans with themes of loneliness, insecurity, friendship, dysfunctional families and the minorities. He was a grantee of the Indonesian National Book Committee’s writing residency in the UK in 2017. He was also a 2018 grantee of the “Crossing Borders” programme jointly run by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.