We congratulate our author Prof. Mamta Kalia on her richly-deserved Sahitya Akademi award. Fifty years ago, she published two books of poems with us: Tribute to Papa and Other Poems and Poems ’78, that have become classics of Indian writing in English. Her photo alongside comes from that time, printed in our authoritative anthology, Modern Indian Poetry in English.
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A Writers Workshop publication has been featured in Notes on Book Design, published by niggli, co-authored by Amanda-Li Kollberg and Siri Lee Lindskrog, who run the Berlin-based design studio, Formal Settings. Kollberg and Lindskrog over the course of conversations with Siddhartha Lokanandi, founder-proprietor of the independent bookstore, Hopskotch Reading Room in Berlin, came up with the idea of featuring 50 books that have found their way through its doors. Notes on Book Design describes the store as “dedicated to non-western […]
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Jyotish Gopinathan has been awarded the Kala Pratibha in the Poetry category of the Kala Literature Awards for his book, The Coppiced House, published by us. Congratulations, Jyotish!
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Seven of our poets have received special mention in the short introductory article compiled by Payal Nagpal and Shyamala A. Narayan for ‘Literature, Critique, and Empire Today’. An annual undertaking, each installment provides an overview of published writing from India in, or translated into, English with this issue spotlighting publications in 2024. The comments on our books are shared below. ‘In her debut work Patchwork Quilt Sunaina Jain chooses her own path rather than follow the goal posts set by […]
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We are saddened by the untimely passing of Amreeta Sen (née Syam). She lived in Kolkata, where she did her schooling from Loreto House, and her graduation and Master’s in History from Jadavpur University, specialising in ancient India. She wrote for several journals and magazines and worked as a sub-editor with The Statesman. She published three books with us, two volumes of poetry – Kurukshetra (1991) and Kaikeyi (1992), and a novel – The Lost Unicorn (2007). Kurukshetra comprised a […]
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Kala – Krazy about Literature and Arts – have announced their awards longlists and two of our books feature in their Debut Author (English) category, The Coppiced House and The Patchwork Quilt, while both titles along with Delphic Diatribes have been longlisted for their Poetry (English) awards category. Congratulations to our poets, Jyotish Gopinathan, Sunaina Jain and Vyshnavee Diwakar! The Kala Literature Awards 2026 will be presented in February as part of the Kala Literature Festival.
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We are happy to share that Prantik Banerjee has won the first prize in the Wingword Poetry Competition, 2025, for his poem, “Stand Alone”, published in Crossing the Line (Writers Workshop, 2022). Banerjee’s first book of poems, A Postscript on Missing Keys, was also brought out by us. This should work as an incentive for you to order a copy of Crossing the Line!
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To commemorate Professor P. Lal’s contributions as a professor, the Department of English at St Xavier’s College, where he taught for over 40 years, has initiated a Professor P. Lal Memorial Lecture series to be held annually. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya on P. Lal’s birthday, 28 August, at the college.
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Born in the district of Pabna (then East Pakistan), Daud Haider completed his college education from Dhaka and Kolkata, graduating from Jadavpur University. He was actively involved in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 and started writing poems, plays and essays prolifically from his late teens and early twenties. He was the literary editor of Dainik Sambad in Dhaka and was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1974 after being imprisoned the year before for writing a poem that was perceived […]
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