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Writing in The Telegraph, Julie Banerjee Mehta celebrates the 150th anniversary of Rassundari Devi’s landmark work, Amar Jiban, the first full-length autobiography in Bengali. Presented at an International Translation Day event, the new revised and annotated edition by…
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To celebrate the 150th year of the first publication in 1876 of Rassundari Dasi/Devi’s historic and pioneering Bengali autobiography, Amar Jiban, Writers Workshop has published a new special edition of the only complete English translation of the book,…
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We regret the passing of Ketaki Kushari Dyson (1940-2026), one of our authors, who studied in Kolkata and then settled in England. A respected scholar and translator of Tagore, she also wrote original works in Bengali and English.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
