Priyanka Champaneri

 

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Priyanka Champaneri’s debut novel, The City of Good Death, won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named one of NPR’s 2021 Books We Love. Her writing has appeared in Astra, Hindu Business Line, Lit Hub, and more. A graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program, Priyanka has received fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Moulin à Nef in Auvillar, France. She is a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow.

 

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The City of Good Death
The City of Good Death
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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

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
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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.

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Meet Priyanka A. Champaneri, Winner of the 2018 Prize for New Immigrant Writing