Literary Hub on Writers Workshop
Happy to share Liesl Shwabe’s wonderful article on the legacy of Writers Workshop here. We would love to hear your thoughts! (Photo credit: Aritra Das, Wikimedia Commons)
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Category: News
Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-2023)
We are saddened by the demise of the acclaimed Jayanta Mahapatra on August 27. He was the first poet to win the Sahitya Akademi award in English (1981). His contributions to Indian literature were also recognized with the Padma Shri (2009), though he felt compelled to return it in 2015 to protest “rising intolerance in India”. Born to Christian parents in Cuttack, Odisha, Mahapatra authored many books, including 27 collections of poetry–seven in Odia and the rest in English, now […]
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‘When the Flowers Begin to Speak’ Wins WE Award
We are pleased to announce that Sonali Pattnaik’s book, When the Flowers Begin to Speak, published in 2021 by Writers Workshop, has received the inaugural WE Illumination Award 2023 and WE Scrolls of Honour 2023, jointly conferred by the WE Literary community. Congratulations, Ms Pattnaik!
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Reprint of River Poems ~ 2023
We are pleased to announce the reprint of Mamang Dai‘s River Poems! Mamang Dai says, “I am thrilled to have this reprint. It is like a homecoming considering my long association with Writers Workshop, and also wonderful that River Poems is still with this steadfastly non-profit, non-political team committed to publishing poetry. That is the honour!” Author: Mamang Dai Pages: 92 Year of Publication: First published 2004, Second revised and expanded edition 2013, Reprint 2023 Price: Rs 400 ISBN: 978-93-5045-065-9 (9789350450659)
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Pirated Edition of One of Our Publications
It has come to our attention that a pirated edition of our publication, Mrityunjaya ~ The Death Conqueror, is being sold on sites like Amazon and Flipkart, and in a few bookstores too. Please go through the images in this post. The first image on the right will show you the back and front covers of the pirated edition. The second and third image (below) will show you the cover design of the authentic edition we have brought out. Writers […]
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Temsula Ao ~ 25 October 1945 – 9 October 2022
Writers Workshop mourns the passing of Temsula Ao. Born in present-day Assam in 1945, she belonged to the Ao Naga community. She was Professor of English at North Eastern Hill University, from where she retired in 2010. Ao wrote poetry, fiction and nonfiction and was awarded the Padma Shri in 2007. In 1988, her debut volume, Songs That Tell became one of the first two poetry books from the northeastern states published by Writers Workshop. We also brought out her […]
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Translation of The Anushasana Parva completed!
In a year like none other we have seen in our lifetime, we bring some happy news to light up the darkness around us: Dr Pradip Bhattacharya has completed the translation of the colossal Volume 13 of Vyasa’s Mahabharata, The Anushasana Parva. This marks the completion of the first verse by verse transcreation of the entire Mahabharata in English. We will inform you when the book is ready for release! We published Dr Bhattacharya’s highly acclaimed translation of the Mokshadharma […]
Read moreWriters Workshop Poet Wins the Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize
We are happy to share that Debarshi Mitra has been awarded the 2017 Srinivas Rayaprol Poetry Prize. This is the 9th edition of the Rayaprol poetry award. Debarshi’s Eternal Migrant was published by us in 2016.
Read moreSurajit Borooah’s Translated Poems Adjudged Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India Translation Awards, 2017
We are happy to announce that Surajit Borooah’s Selected Assamese Poetry has been judged Joint Runners-Up at the Muse India – Satish Verma Translation Awards 2017 for poetry, along with Seth Michelson’s translation of Rati Saxena’s Scripted in the Streams (Poetrywala, 2017). Selected Assamese Poetry was brought out by Writers Workshop, India, in 2015. “Both these volumes share the Runners-Up prize as much for the quality of selection of poems as for the quality of translation. The easy readability of these poems […]
Read moreDipika Mukherjee on Writers Workshop
Dipika Mukherjee, author of The Third Glass of Wine, shares her personal journey as a writer, and her experiences with publishing houses. About Writers Workshop, India, she writes: “… I kept seeing the Writers Workshop books everywhere, and delighting in their difference. As the press went into its sixth decade of existence, I finally realized the value of being a part of the literary history of India, and started the process of qualifying for my own hand-loom sari-bound volume of poetry, with exquisite calligraphy […]
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