![]() The authors had incredibly valuable and diverse insights, ranging from the role of imperialism in language to the burdens of being labeled an immigrant writer. It is edited by Stavans, who is the publisher of Restless Books, a professor at Amherst College and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Kareem, a poet and a Best Translated Book Award nominee, and Tufts alumna and author of New York Times Editor’s Choice “The Body Papers” (2019) Talusan (LA’94) both contributed to “And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again” (2020) - an anthology of works describing how lives have been transformed by COVID-19. Unnikrishnan is a writer from Abu Dhabi, whose book “Temporary People” (2017) won the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, the 2017 Hindu Literary Prize and the 2018 Moore Prize. ![]() 11, Brookline Booksmith hosted “Immigrant Writing in a Time of Crisis,” a conversation with Mona Kareem, Grace Talusan, Deepak Unnikrishnan and Ilan Stavans. ![]()
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