About
Priyanka Champaneri's debut novel, THE CITY OF GOOD DEATH, won the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, was a finalist for the 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and was named one of NPR's 2021 Books We Love. She 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. In 2024 she received a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Featured Work
The City of Good Death
Winner of the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing--judged by Téa Obreht and Ilan Stavans--Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent 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.
Other Works
Awards and Recognition
- 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow
- 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist
- 2021 NPR's Books We Love
- 2021 Tata Literature Live First Fiction Book Award Longlist
- 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
Press and Media Mentions
- The Center for Fiction Interviews Priyanka Champaneri, 2021 First Novel Prize Finalist
- The Telegraph India: Candid Chat with Priyanka Champaneri
- LibraryThing Interviews Priyanka Champaneri
- Review by The New York Times
- Review by Publishers Weekly
- Review by The Arkansas International
- Review by Locus Magazine
