New Delhi, Jan 14 (PTI) Niyogi Books has launched threenew imprints for translation, fiction and non-fiction works tomark its 13-year publishing journey.
The publishing house also announced that it would soonventure into language publishing.
At an event to celebrate the 13th anniversary, well knownpoet and short story writer Keki N Daruwalla launched OliveTurtle, the fiction publication and shared how Indian Englishwriting has changed over the years.
The Thornbird imprint, dedicated to greatest translatedworks, was launched by Kannada poet and author H SShivaprakash who talked about the translation work scenariothen and now.
The non-fiction imprint called Paper Missile was launchedby academician and creative writer Udaya Narayana Singh.
According to Bikash De Niyogi, managing director andpublisher of Niyogi Books, the Indian publishing scenario isvibrating with multifarious activities and his entity wouldlike to be a part of this larger scenario.
"The diversification is a conscious decision to upholdthe vision of Niyogi Books - 'fine publishing within reach'.
Hence, this attempt to go beyond just illustrated books andpublish new imprints of fiction, translation and non-fictionalprose," he said.
Speaking on the future endeavours, Nirmal KantiBhattacharjee, director of Niyogi Books said once the take-offstage is over and "we are ready to negotiate more diversityand large plenitude, it becomes necessary to pigeonholeoneself in different formats. This is what motivated NiyogiBooks to launch the three new imprints".
Some books to be published under Olive Turtle includeArnab Nandy's "Road to Tarascon", which unfolds the chain ofevents ultimately leading to the discovery of the Van Goghmasterpiece, and "Love and Life in Lucknow: An imaginaryBiography of a City" by Mehru Jaffer.
The Thornbird imprint will offer unique writings ofliterature from many lands, cultures and languages. Rangingfrom conventional writers such as Rabindranath Tagore to thecontemporary writer A Sethu Madhavan, diaspora of writingswill also be translated.
Some works under this imprint are "Day and Dastan: TwoNovellas" by Intizar Husain and "Moisture Trapped in Stone: AnAnthology of Modern Telugu Short Stories".
Under the non-fiction imprint Paper Missile, books like"The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand"by Subhashis Das; "Bengali Culture over a thousand years" byGhulam Murshidin; and "Zanskar to Ziro" by Sohini Sen will bepublished.
On the occasion a book "P C Sorcar: The Maharaja ofMagic" was launched, which is written by P C Sorcar Jr.
Niyogi Books started its publication with a coffee tablebook by Geeta Chandran and Rajiv Chandran called "So ManyJourneys" 13 years ago. PTI ZMNRDS.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.