Restless Books is an

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located in

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, behi ...

. 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 Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest. Her books and films, including the novels ''My Year of Meats'' (1998), ''All Over Creation'' (2003), '' A Tale for the Time Being'' (2013), and ''The Book of Form and ...

, Lana Bastašić, Yishai Sarid,

Andrea Chapela Andrea Chapela (born 1990) is a Mexicans, Mexican writer. She was born in Mexico City. She studied chemistry at UNAM and has a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is also an alumna of the Clarion West Writers Workshop for fan ...

, Sachiko Kashiwaba,

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 t ...

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 rai ...

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 a ...

, and

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 ...

. It includes the Yonder imprint for younger readers.

History

Restless Books was founded in 2013 by

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 ...

, 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 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 ...

for ''Temporary People'' * 2017:

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 s ...

for ''The Body Papers'' *2018:

Priyanka A. Champaneri ''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 lov ...

for ''The City of Good Death'' *2019: Rajiv Mohabir for ''Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir'' *2020:

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 ...

for ''A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times'' *2021:

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 ...

for ''By Its Right Name''

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