GRACE TALUSAN

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Grace Talusan is an immigrant from the Philippines. She teaches nonfiction writing in the English Department at Brown University. She has received support from United States Artists, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Brother Thomas Fund, the Fulbright, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council with residencies at Ragdale, Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Mass MOCA, and others. The Body Papers won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, and was recognized by the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center with the Beacon Award. Talusan graduated from Tufts University and the MFA Program in Writing at UC Irvine, and is on the board of the National Book Critics Circle.

 

BOOKS

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The Body Papers
The Body Papers
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By Grace Talusan

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Winner of the Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction

Grace Talusan’s critically acclaimed memoir The Body Papers, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, powerfully explores the fraught contours of her own life as a Filipino immigrant and survivor of cancer and childhood abuse.

Paperback ISBN: 9781632060242 • Mar 3, 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632061836 • Apr 9, 2019

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers from Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic
$22.00

Edited by Ilan Stavans

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries send literary dispatches from life during the pandemic. A portion of proceeds benefit booksellers in need.

World Literature Today’s 75 Notable Translation of 2020

Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063021
Publication date: Aug 25, 2020

 
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A Rare Literary Prize Devoted to Celebrating Immigrant Voices: Poets & Writers on the New Immigrant Writing Prize
A Rare Literary Prize Devoted to Celebrating Immigrant Voices: Poets & Writers on the New Immigrant Writing Prize

Poets & Writers recently featured past winners of our Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing in a piece by Anni Liu about the Prize, and the scarcity of such opportunities for immigrant writers in the US literary landscape.

A Book Is A Bomb: Read the New Afterword to Grace Talusan's Memoir "The Body Papers"
A Book Is A Bomb: Read the New Afterword to Grace Talusan's Memoir "The Body Papers"

“I experience the world as an ongoing series of border crossings, and since the book was published, I’ve felt as though I’ve crossed another border into a new country.”

"The Body Papers" Spring Paperback Tour with Grace Talusan
"The Body Papers" Spring Paperback Tour with Grace Talusan

Join Grace Talusan at events across the country and online this spring to celebrate the paperback release of her indelible memoir The Body Papers.

Fall 2019 Tour — Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir
Fall 2019 Tour — Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers: A Memoir
Events for Grace Talusan, Author of The Body Papers: A Memoir
Events for Grace Talusan, Author of The Body Papers: A Memoir
Meet Grace Talusan, Winner of the 2017 Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Meet Grace Talusan, Winner of the 2017 Prize for New Immigrant Writing

Today, Publishers Weekly announced the winner of the 2017 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for Nonfiction: Grace Talusan, for her memoir The Body Papers. As detailed below in the judges' citation and author's statement about her book, The Body Papers is a brave, artful memoir about trauma, illness, and immigration as told through personal and official documentation. The book is scheduled to be published in the Fall of 2018.