About
Priyanka Champaneri 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. She received the 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for The City of Good Death, her first novel.
Featured Work
The City of Good Death
2021
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
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"Draupadi on the Mountaintop" an essay in the COVID-19 inspired anthology, And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again (Restless Books)
2020
Awards and Recognition
- 2021 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist
- 2021 Tata Literature Live First Fiction Book Award Longlist
- 2018 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing
