On February 23, we celebrated the launch of The City of Good Death at Greenlight Bookstore. Priyanka Champaneri spoke with fellow Immigrant Writing Prize winner Grace Talusan about superstitions, her writing process, her obsession with Banaras, and the novel that resulted, eight years in the making. Watch their conversation below and order The City of Good Death from Greenlight.
On March 3, Priyanka Champaneri spoke with Sita Bhaskar for the Mysuru Literature Festival.
On March 11, Asian American Writers’ Workshop hosted Priyanka Champaneri and Marjan Kamali, author of The Stationery Shop.
Priyanka Champaneri and The Thoughtful Bro host Mark Cecil in conversation on May 18.
About the Author
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Priyanka Champaneri received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University and has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts numerous times. She received the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for The City of Good Death, her first novel.
By Priyanka Champaneri
Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent, prize-winning debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras, where the manager of a death hostel shepherds the dying who seek the release of a good death, while his own past refuses to let him go.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062529
Publication date: Feb 23, 2021
Paperback ISBN: 9781632062536
Publication date: Apr 12, 2022