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Restless Books
Restless Books is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Brooklyn, New York. Restless publishes "international works of fiction, journalism, memoirs, travel writing, and illustrated books." The press published 15-20 titles a year, including authors Ruth Ozeki, Lana Bastašić, Yishai Sarid, Andrea Chapela, Sachiko Kashiwaba, Tash Aw, Chris Abani, Gabriela Wiener, and Giacomo Sartori. It includes the Yonder imprint for younger readers. History Restless Books was founded in 2013 by Ilan Stavans, Annette Hochstein, and Joshua Ellison as an international press. Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing Restless inaugurated the annual $10,000 Prize for New Immigrant Writing in 2016. The prize comes with a publication deal. Winners of the New Immigrant Writing Prize * 2016: Deepak Unnikrishnan for ''Temporary People'' * 2017: Grace Talusan for ''The Body Papers'' *2018: Priyanka A. Champaneri for ''The City of Good Death'' *2019: Rajiv Mohabir for ''Antiman: A Hyb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans (born Ilan Stavchansky on April 7, 1961) is a Mexican-American author and academic. He writes and speaks on American, Hispanic, and Jewish cultures. He is the author of ''Quixote'' (2015) and a contributor to the ''Norton Anthology of Latino Literature'' (2010). Life Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico in 1961 to a middle-class Jewish family; his father's ancestors had immigrated from the Russian Pale of Settlement. His parents were born in Mexico City. His father, Abraham Stavans, had become a Mexican telenovela actor. His mother, Ofelia Stavans, taught theater. After living in Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, Stavans immigrated to the United States in 1985. He earned a master's degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary and a Doctorate in Letters from Columbia University. He married Alison, and they had two sons, Joshua and Isaiah. Since 1993 he has been on the faculty at Amherst College, where he is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tash Aw
Tash Aw, whose full name is Aw Ta-Shi (; born 4 October 1971) is a Malaysian writer living in London. Biography Born in 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan, to Malaysian parents, Tash Aw returned to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the age of two, and grew up there. Like many Malaysians, he had a multilingual upbringing, speaking Chinese and Cantonese at home, and Malay and English at school. He eventually relocated to England to study law at Jesus College, Cambridge, and at the University of Warwick before moving to London to write. He completed the MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in 2003. His first novel, '' The Harmony Silk Factory'', was published in 2005. It was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize and won the 2005 Whitbread Book Awards First Novel Award as well as the 2005 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel (Asia Pacific region). It also made it to the long-list of the world's prestigious 2007 International Impac Dublin Award and the Guardian Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ani Gjika
Ani ( hy, Անի; grc-gre, Ἄνιον, ''Ánion''; la, Abnicum; tr, Ani) is a ruined medieval Armenian city now situated in Turkey's province of Kars, next to the closed border with Armenia. Between 961 and 1045, it was the capital of the Bagratid Armenian kingdom that covered much of present-day Armenia and eastern Turkey. The iconic city was often referred to as the "City of 1,001 Churches," though the number was significantly less. To date, 50 churches, 33 cave chapels and 20 chapels have been excavated by archaeologists and historians. Ani stood on various trade routes and its many religious buildings, palaces, and sophisticated fortifications distinguished it from other contemporary urban centers in the Armenian kingdom. Among its most notable buildings was the Cathedral of Ani, which is associated with early examples of Gothic architecture and that scholars argue influenced the great cathedrals of Europe in the early gothic and Romanesque styles; its ribbed vaulting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meron Hadero
Meron Hadero is an Ethiopian-American writer. She was born in Addis Ababa. Career An immigrant to Germany residing in United States, she earned her degree in history from Princeton University, MFA from University of Michigan and JD from Yale Law School. Hadero's work has appeared in '' Best American Short Stories'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern'', ''Zyzzyva'', ''Addis Ababa Noir'', and ''40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology''. She has received the Yaddo, Ragdale, and MacDowell fellowships and was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. Her debut short story collection, ''A Down home meal for these difficult times'', was published in 2022 by Restless Books won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing. It was also a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize in 2023. Meron also served as a research analyst for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rajiv Mohabir
Rajiv Mohabir is an Indo-Caribbean American poet. He is the author of two poetry collections and four chapbooks. Currently, he teaches in the BFA/ MFA program in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing department at Emerson College. Early life and education Mohabir was born in London. Soon after, his family moved to Toronto, and then to Chuluota, Florida, where he spent most of his formative years. In Queens, New York, he taught ESL as community empowerment for immigrants. "It was also disheartening to know all the obstacles they had to deal with in order to make something of themselves,” he says. “I had been there myself.” When he lived in New York, he produced the nationally broadcast radio show ''KAVIhouse'' on JusPunjabi. Mohabir is fluent in Hindi, Bhojpuri and a dying language known as Guyanese Hindustani. Mohabir has a BA from the University of Florida in religious studies and an MSEd in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages from Long Island Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priyanka A
''Priyanka'' is a popular female given name in Hindu and Buddhist cultures. It is a name derived from the Sanskrit word 'Priyankera' or 'Priyankara', meaning someone or something that is amiable, lovable, or makes you happy and the one who has lovely eyes (priya ank). In its adverb form it can also mean endearing behavior, for example an act of showing kindness or happiness or excitement; or kind agree-ability. The Sanskrit word Priyankara is also used to describe the white variety of the ' Kantakari' flower (Sweta kantakari). Some of the earliest mentions of the Kantakari flower can be found in the ancient Hindu Ayurveda text from the mid-second millennium BCE. People *Priyanka (drag queen), winner of '' Canada's Drag Race'' *Priyanka Arul Mohan (born 1994), Indian actress *Priyanka Bassi, Indian television actress * *Priyanka Chaturvedi (born 1979), Spokesperson of All India Congress Committee * Priyanka Chhabra (born 1994), Indian actress and model * Priyanka Chopra (born 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Talusan
Grace Talusan is a Filipino American writer. Her 2019 memoir, ''The Body Papers'', won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the Massachusetts Book Award in nonfiction, and was a ''New York Times'' Editors' Choice selection. Her short story "The Book of Life and Death" was the Boston Book Festival's One City One Story selection in 2020. Talusan was born in the Philippines, and during the 1970s, her parents came to Chicago from Manila, as her father, Totoy, finished his medical studies on a student visa, and then they settled in Boston, Massachusetts, when she was 2. Upon expiration of her father's student visa, the family, including Grace and her two brothers, all U.S.-born, were undocumented. She graduated from Tufts University and holds an MFA from UC Irvine. She was the Fannie Hurst Writer in Residence at Brandeis University and is currently a lecturer in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown University. Reception In a ''New York Times'' review, Jennifer S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deepak Unnikrishnan
Deepak (दीपक) is a Hindi word meaning lamp, from the Sanskrit source word for light. The name Deepak symbolizes a bright future. In the twentieth century, it became very popular as a first name for male Hindus. Names like ''Deepa'' (male—though used for females by many Indians now), ''Deepika'' (female), ''Deepthi'' (female), ''Deepam'' (male), ''Deepali'' (female), and many others are related to ''Deepak''. The names mentioned above are related to light or the holder of light: * Deepak (male) – a lamp or candle; meaning one who gives light on his own behalf * Deepa (male) – a lamp * Deep (male) – wick/flame of the lamp; Hindi/north Indian derivation of Sanskrit "Deepa" (male) * Deepankar (male) – one who lights lamps * Deependra (male) – lord of light * Deepit (male) – lighted * Deepanjali (female) – offerings of lamps * Deepmala (female) – garland of lamps, tower of lamps * Deepali (female) – collection of lamps * Deepika (female) – a little light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giacomo Sartori
Giacomo Sartori (born 1958) is an Italian author and agronomist. His day job as a soil scientist has attracted attention for its atypicality and influence on his work. Sartori, who began writing in his thirties, has since published seven novels and four collections of short stories. He is also an editor and columnist of the online literary magazine '. '' I Am God'', his first novel to be published in English, was translated in 2019 by Frederika Randall and received positive reviews. Early life Sartori was born in Trento, Italy, in 1958. The Alpine region near the Austrian border he grew up in inspired many of his early works. His father was a supporter of Italian fascism and Benito Mussolini, which shaped the younger Sartori's worldview indelibly; his conscious attempts to distance himself from his father inspired much of his psyche and writing. He graduated from the University of Florence in 1983 with a degree in agricultural science. Early works Sartori began writing in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Wiener
Gabriela Wiener (born 1975 Lima) is a Peruvian writer, chronicler, poet and journalist. She is part of the group of new Latin American chroniclers. She has settled in Spain since 2003. Life She is daughter of the prominent political analyst and Peruvian journalist Raúl Wiener and social worker Elsi Bravo. She studied linguistics and literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and a master's degree in historical culture and communications at the University of Barcelona, where she lived from 2003 to 2011. Since then she has lived in Madrid. She worked in the newspaper '' El Comercio''. She was a member of the editorial board of ' magazine. She was also editor in chief of the Spanish magazine ''Primera Línea'' and the Spanish edition of Marie Claire magazine. She has written for ''Corriere della Sera, Words Without Borders'','' The White Review, Virginia Quarterly Review,' Orsai, Esquire, Revue XXI, Clarin, El Universal, El Mercurio, La Vanguardia'', among othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Abani
Christopher Abani (born 27 December 1966) is a Nigerian-American and Los Angeles- based author. He says he is part of a new generation of Nigerian writers working to convey to an English-speaking audience the experience of those born and raised in "that troubled African nation". Biography Abani was born in Afikpo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria. His father was Igbo, while his mother was of English descent. Abani published his first novel, ''Masters of the Board'', in 1985 at the age of 16. It was a political thriller, the plot of which was an allegory based on a coup that was carried out in Nigeria just before it was written. He was imprisoned for six months on suspicion of an attempt to overthrow the government. He continued to write after his release from jail, but was imprisoned for one year after the publication of his 1987 novel ''Sirocco.'' During this time, he was held at the infamous Kiri Kiri prison, where he was tortured. After he was released from jail this time, he c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachiko Kashiwaba
is a feminine Japanese given name that means "''child of bliss''." It also means "''happiness''" when it is written with the kanji characters 幸子. One common short form of the name is ''Sachi''. People * Sachiko, Princess Hisa (久宮祐子内親王, 1927–1928), Japanese princess *, Japanese cult leader and serial killer * Sachiko Murata (born 1943), Japanese academic *, Japanese shogi player * Sachiko Yamada, pseudonym used by kidnap victim Fusako Sano Arts * Sachiko Chijimatsu (千々松 幸子, born 1937), Japanese voice actress * Sachiko Hamano (浜野佐知子, born 1948), Japanese pink film director * Sachiko Kamachi (蒲池幸子, 1967–2007), birth name of Japanese singer and model Izumi Sakai * Sachiko Kamimura (神村 幸子), Japanese animator * Sachiko Kodama, Japanese sculpture artist * Sachiko Kojima (小島幸子, born 1979), Japanese voice actress * Sachiko Kokubu (国分 佐智子, born 1976), Japanese actress and model * Sachiko M, Japanese experimental ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
