Writers Workshop

Writers Workshop

Writers Workshop is a Calcutta-based literary publisher, founded by the poet P. Lal and a group of seven other writers (Deb Kumar Das, Anita Desai, Sasthibrata Chakravarti who writes by the name of Sasthi Brata, William Hull, Jail Ratan, Kewlian Sio and Pradip Sen) in 1958. Although it is oriented to Indian writing in English, it has also published books in other modern Indian languages.

To date the press has published over 3000 titles of poetry, novels, plays, and other works, with two main focuses: experimental literature of the present day, and translation from Sanskrit and other classical Indian languages. Writers Workshop has published first books by many authors who went on to fame, including Vikram Seth, Asif Currimbhoy, Nissim Ezekiel, Jayanta Mahapatra, Ruskin Bond, Pritish Nandy, Chandrakant Bakshi and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

Perhaps the most important publishing venture Writers Workshop has undertaken is P. Lal's translation of the entire Indian epic Mahabharata in 18 volumes (now appearing in press, 2005-2009).

External links

* [http://www.harmonyindia.org/hportal/media/NewsDetails.jsp?page_id=338&id=N228&divId=312 Harmony Magazine on Writers Workshop]
* [http://www.writersworkshopindia.com/ Writers Workshop India Official Website]


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