William Radice (1951-2024)

Writers Workshop mourns the passing of William Radice (1951-2024), British poet, scholar and translator. He taught Bengali at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Radice translated celebrated Bengali works such as Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry and stories, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s The Poem of the Killing of Meghnad. He edited Myths and Legends of India, a collection of 112 of his own retellings, including selections from our publication, P. Lal’s transcreation of The Mahabharata of Vyasa. A dear friend, Dr Radice published four volumes of poetry with Writers Workshop: Selected Poems, 1970–81 (1987), Before and After (1995), This Theatre Royal (2004) and Beauty, Be My […]

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Keki N. Daruwalla (24 January 1937 – 26 September 2024)

We mourn the death of the acclaimed author, Keki N. Daruwalla, who passed away on 26 September at the age of 87. His debut poetry collection Under Orion was published by Writers Workshop in 1970, followed by Apparition in April in 1971, which brought him the Uttar Pradesh State Award in 1972. He went on to write many other books of poetry, short stories, novels and nonfiction prose. Daruwalla received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1984 for The Keeper of the Dead (1982).  He returned this award in 2015 in protest after the death of writer […]

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‘The Square Root of a Sonnet’ at the Royal Institute of London

The Square Root of a Sonnet, written by Nilanjan Choudhury and published by Writers Workshop, was performed at the renowned Royal Institution of London on 19th and 20th July, 2024. It was produced by the Centre for Film & Drama, India and directed by Prakash Belawadi, under the patronage of the Murty Trust. “It has been a humbling, exhilarating and extraordinary experience to stage the play at the 200+ years old Royal Institution – in the same theatre where people […]

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‘Lola in Belfast’ at the Belfast Book Festival

Congratulations are due to Pallavi Padma-Uday who launched her book Lola in Belfast at the Belfast Book Festival. She says about her experience: “Lola in Belfast was the only book by an Indian publisher and writer at the festival, and the biggest joy for me was to represent Indian writing in English among some of the best writers in England and Ireland. Launching my book with Catherine Dunne was special – she is the recipient of the Irish Pen award for […]

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‘The Violet Sun’ in Telegraph’s ‘T2’

The Violet Sun, edited by Inam Hussain Begg Mullick, and published by Writers Workshop, was launched at Alliance Francaise du Bengale on Thursday, 25th July. The event was covered in The Telegraph‘s T2. “Writers Workshop’s role in poetry publication in India is still going strong. What I especially liked about the project is that 23 poets who have contributed to the collection are all contemporary poets and an anthology like that is rare to find,” agreed Ananda Lal. Click on […]

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‘Hikayat Pandawa Lima’ Featured in ‘The Book Review’

Harry Aveling’s Hikayat Pandawa Lima, published by Writers Workshop, has been reviewed by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya in The Book Review. He says of the book: “Chock-full of adventures and romance, the flavour is much like the Kathasaritsagara (c. 11th century) and Dashakumaracharita (c. 8th century). Aveling’s introduction provides a valuable framework for reading the chronicle. The publisher Ananda Lal’s list of original Sanskrit names of major characters is extremely helpful in navigating through the plethora of persona peopling the chronicle. […]

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Writers Workshop’s Pride Collection

Writers Workshop takes pride in sharing a shortlist of a few books published by our authors over the last half a century who have contributed to queer writing, celebrating diverse voices and stories that have enriched our literary landscape.

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Writers Workshop Poets Mentioned in the Prestigious JCL

  Five of our books published in 2022 have been featured in the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. This is what the journal says: “Several interesting debut collections appeared from the North-Eastern states. The Tortoise Prince by Gumlat Ong Maio of the Singpho tribe of Arunachal Pradesh is a retelling of fourteen folk tales of the tribe in verse form. The Singphos have no written history and Maio’s recording of these oral folk tales in written form will help document the […]

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Our 19-Volume Mahabharata Completed

We are happy to announce that our 19-volume Mahabharata project is now completed, close to 13 years after Professor P. Lal passed away. The Anuśāsana Parva (Volume XIII), translated by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya, was released in October 2023, marking the end of this massive undertaking. “At the request of Ananda Lal, I was able to complete the very difficult task of translating the Mokshadharma portion of the Sānti Parva (2016). A welcome opportunity to continue my daksinā arose when he […]

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