Jaya’s newsletter 6 ( 7 Jan 2017)
Happy New Year!
January is an extremely busy month in terms of literary events. There are back-to-back literary festivals, book fairs, book launches and more. There have been some exciting announcements such as Amazon India launching Kindle in 5 regional languages. The annual NBT World Book 
Fair is now held 7-15 January and will showcase India’s cultural heritage. India is a significant book market. So it is no surprise that once again 
the Australian Council for the Arts is bringing a team of publishers to India for B2B interactions in January 2017. Later this week the Hindu Lit Fest happens in Chennai, followed by Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2017 and Jaipur Literature Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary. Here is a preview.
As always the Costa Book Awards were announced at the beginning of the new year. And Etisalat Prize released its shortlist.
And for those based in Delhi, I will be in conversation with the wonderful novelist Chitra Bannerjee Divakurni about her latest novel, Before We Visit the Goddess. It is at 6:30pm on Monday, 16 January 2017, India International Centre, New Delhi.
Publishing Jobs and Appointments
- Sameer Mahale has joined Penguin Random House India as General Manager, Sales. He was earlier at HarperCollins
- Manasi Subramanian moves to PRH India as Senior Commissioning Editor responsible for acquiring literary fiction and nonfiction.
- There is a vacancy for Publisher, Scholastic India, Delhi. The person has to have minimum 6-8 years of experience in children’s and young adult literature. Please send resume to Neeraj Jain, Managing Director ( [email protected] ).
New arrivals ( Dec – early Jan)
- Eric Bulson Little Magazine, World Form Columbia University Press
- Narayan Rao Text and Tradition in South India Permanent Black
- Emma Dawson Verghese Genre Fiction of New India Routledge India
- Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers The Bestseller Code Allen Lane
- Keith Houston The Book Norton
- Prashant Reddy T. and Sumathi Chandrashekharan Create, Copy, Disrupt: India’s Intellectual Property Dilemmas ( with a foreword by Dr. Shamnad Basheer) OUP
- Romila Thapar Indian Society and the Secular Three Essays Collective
- William Dalrymple and Anita Anand Kohinoor Juggernaut
- Jan Brandt Against the World ( transl. Katy Derbyshire) Seagull Books
- Hannah Kent The Good People Picador
- Maha Khan Philips The Curse of Mohenjadaro PanMacmillan India
- Sarvat Hasin This Wide Night Hamish Hamilton
- Ryan Lobo Mr Iyer Goes to War Bloomsbury
- Laksmi Pamuntjak Amba Speaking Tiger Books
- Sanchit Gupta The Tree with a Thousand Apples Niyogi Books
- Andrei Sinyavsky Strolls with Pushkin ( transl by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy & Slava I. Yastremski ) Columbia University Press
- Armando Lucas Correa The German Girl Simon & Schuster
- Martin Cruz Smith The Girl from Venice Simon & Schuster
- Kate Furnivall The Liberation Simon & Schuster
- Jeffrey Self Drag Teen PUSH
- Lucy Sutcliffe Girl Hearts Girl Scholastic
- Yona Zeldis McDonough Bicycle Spy Scholastic Press
- Elizabeth Laird Welcome to Nowhere Macmillan Childrens Books
Interesting links
- Graphic novels radically rooted in Indian market
- The Great AI Awakening How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself. ( An excellent article!)
- Andrew Wylie’s Global Approach to Agenting
- Vijay Prashad on “The essentials of socialist writing”
- “Juggernaut turns a page” A profile of the publishing house on
- On Meville House blogs an interview with a bookstore which closed down: An Interview with BookCourt’s Zack Zook
- Alt-right Milo Yiannopoulos’s cynical book deal with Simon & Schuster.
- Profile of sci-fi author, Ken Liu, bridging America and China
- Guwahati gets its first braille library
- In 2016, Hindi Literature Became the Voice of the Marginalised
- The nonfiction of my feminism by Amrita Narayanan
- Interview with Daisy Rockwell, Author, Artist and a Hindi-Urdu Translator
- Interview with Namita Gokhale on her new novel, Things to Leave Behind.
Harvard discovers a few of its library books are bound in human flesh ( 2014)- Photo album of Madras Literary Society ( estd. 1812) by Vikram Raghavan
- Most Women In Publishing Don’t Have The Luxury Of Being Unlikeable
7 January 2017
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