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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…
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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…
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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,…
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We are happy to share that Sritama Sen’s There Used to Be a Lake Here Once has been adjudged runner-up in the Ambika Ananth Award for Poetry category of this year’s Muse India Young Writer Awards. The judges’ citation…
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Writers Workshop remembers and celebrates Pritish Nandy as the 16-year-old poet who came to Professor P. Lal with his first manuscript of poetry, Of Gods and Olives (which we published in 1967). He wrote about his experience with P. Lal,…
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Some of our books published recently have been featured in ‘Literature, Critique, and Empire Today’. Here is what the prestigious journal had to say: “Purabi Bhattacharya’s Even Birds Go Home brings together her experience of being an…
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Writers Workshop mourns the passing of William Radice (1951-2024), British poet, scholar and translator. He taught Bengali at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Radice translated celebrated Bengali works such as Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry and stories, and Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s The Poem of the Killing of…
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We mourn the death of the acclaimed author, Keki N. Daruwalla, who passed away on 26 September at the age of 87. His debut poetry collection Under Orion was published by Writers Workshop in 1970, followed by Apparition in April in 1971, which brought…
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The Square Root of a Sonnet, written by Nilanjan Choudhury and published by Writers Workshop, was performed at the renowned Royal Institution of London on 19th and 20th July, 2024. It was produced by the Centre for Film…
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Congratulations are due to Pallavi Padma-Uday who launched her book Lola in Belfast at the Belfast Book Festival. She says about her experience: “Lola in Belfast was the only book by an Indian publisher and writer at the festival,…
