We were thrilled to celebrate Amherst College’s LitFest 2022’s with an exciting author talk featuring the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing winners Deepak Unnikrishnan, Grace Talusan, and Ani Gjika in collaboration with The Common. The discussion was moderated by Restless Books publisher, Ilan Stavans.
Now in its seventh year, Amherst’s annual LitFest brings together distinguished authors and editors to discuss tall things literary with panels on everything from fiction and nonfiction to poetry and spoken-word performance.
This year’s festival lineup also included Pulitzer Prize winners Natalie Diaz and Viet Thanh Nguyen; 2021 National Book Award nominees Katie Kitamura and Elizabeth McCracken.
In case you missed the live event, you can watch the Restless Panel, “(Im)migration, “ below until May 3rd!
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