rajiv mohabir

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Rajiv Mohabir is the author of Cutlish (2021, Four Way Books, finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award, longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Voelcker Award), The Cowherd’s Son (2017, winner of the 2015 Kundiman Prize) and The Taxidermist’s Cut (2016, winner of the Four Way Books Intro to Poetry Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2017), and translator of I Even Regret Night: Holi Songs of Demerara (1916) (2019), which received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant Award and the 2020 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. His essays can be found in places like the Asian American Writers Workshop’s The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Journal, Moko Magazine, Cherry Tree, Kweli, and others, and he has a “Notable Essay” in Best American Essays 2018. Currently he is an assistant professor of poetry in the MFA program at Emerson College. His debut memoir, Antiman, won the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.

 

BOOKS

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Pina
Pina
$18.00

By Titaua Peu

Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Introduction by Rajiv Mohabir

Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize

Winner of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize

Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize

From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism and held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family’s traumas.

Paperback ISBN: 9781632061553
Publication date: Aug 16, 2022

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
from $19.00

By Rajiv Mohabir

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing

2021 Foreword INDIES Winner – LGBTQ+ (Adult Nonfiction)

Finalist for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award

2022 LAMBDA Literary Awards Finalist – Gay Memoir/Biography

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the United States.

Hardcover ISBN: 9781632062802
Publication date: Jun 22, 2021

Paperback ISBN: 9781632061683
Publication date: Aug 16, 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
$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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"Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir" Book Tour with Rajiv Mohabir
"Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir" Book Tour with Rajiv Mohabir

Rajiv Mohabir is on tour this summer and fall! We hope you will join us as we celebrate the paperback release of Rajiv’s gorgeous, award-winning memoir, Antiman, at in-person events around the country.

Rapid-Fire Picks for Women in Translation Month from Restless Authors and Translators
Rapid-Fire Picks for Women in Translation Month from Restless Authors and Translators

For Women in Translation Month, we asked our favorite authors and translators share a glimpse into their reading lives with rapid-fire picks for favorite women writers in translation.

"Open the Door": An Excerpt from Rajiv Mohabir's "Antiman"
"Open the Door": An Excerpt from Rajiv Mohabir's "Antiman"

“Try as I might to ignore the brown of my hands, it betrayed me as Other constantly in the world of White celebration. I was different; I always knew. I was brown, but there was another difference that I did not share with my brother and sister. I sat at a crossroads: I did not understand myself but wanted to.”

Restless Staff and Author Picks: Independent Bookstore Day 2021
Restless Staff and Author Picks: Independent Bookstore Day 2021

For Independent Bookstore Day 2021, we’ve rounded up a few of our favorite indie-press books, paired with a few of our most beloved indie bookstores.

Writers on the Pandemic: Virtual Events for "And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again"
Writers on the Pandemic: Virtual Events for "And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again"

Join writers from across the world as they discuss And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again and the COVID-19 pandemic at virtual events this fall.

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.
Meet Rajiv Mohabir, Winner of the 2019 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing