have no wish to profit from it." He further went on to recommend that the award money be donated to the charity Refugee Council. He is Deputy President of English PEN. In 2009, he donated the short story "Kaltes klares Wasser" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Kunzru's story was published in the Water collection. In 2012 at the Jaipur Literature Festival he, along with three other authors, Ruchir Joshi, Jeet Thayil and Amitava Kumar, risked arrest by reading excerpts from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which remains unpublished in India due to fear of controversy. Kunzru later wrote, "Our intention was not to offend anyone's religious sensibilities, but to give a voice to a writer who had been silenced by a death threat." The reading drew sharp criticism from Muslim groups as being a deliberately provocative move to gain publicity for the four authors. Kunzru himself admitted in an interview that he was asked to leave by the festival organizers as his presence was likely to "inflame an already volatile situation." In 2016, Kunzru visited Israel, as part of a project by the "Breaking the Silence" organization, to write an article for a book on the Israeli occupation, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. The book was edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, and was published under the title "Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation", in June 2017. Personal life Kunzru is married to novelist Katie Kitamura, and the couple have two children. Kunzru is fascinated by UFOs and as a youngster often imagined a close-encounter type experience with them. Honours 1999: The Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year 2002: Betty Trask Award, The Impressionist 2003: Somerset Maugham Award, The Impressionist 2003: Granta "Best of Young British Novelists" (one of twenty) 2005: New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Transmission 2005: Lire "50 écrivains pour demain" 2008: New York Public Library Fellow, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers 2014: Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation 2016: Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin Bibliography 2002: The Impressionist. London: Hamish Hamilton. , 2004: Transmission. London: Hamish Hamilton. , 2005: Noise. London: Penguin. , 2007: My Revolutions. London: Penguin. 2011: Gods Without Men. London: Penguin. , 2013: Memory Palace. London: V&A 2014: Twice Upon a Time: Listening to New York. New