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Penguin India turns 20; party begins today

Penguin India will be celebrating 20 years of its existence here in this country with a series of events and special commemorative editions.

The ball will be set rolling this Wednesday with a party in New Delhi where Pearson Chief Executive Marjorie Scardino will release “The Fiction Collection” and “The Non-fiction Collection”, editions which will contain specially chosen pieces published by Penguin India over the past two decades.

In the past decade, the Indian English publishing market has seen several major global publishing houses vying for a piece of the pie. Foraying into the Indian publishing market with just seven titles in 1987, Penguin India now boasts an active backlist of over 2,000 titles from a host of prize-winning authors which makes it Asia’s largest English language trade publisher. Authors on its rolls include Nobel laureates and winners of the Magsaysay Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize. Several writers are also the recipients of the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan. Publications in English apart, Penguin India releases over 60 titles every year in Hindi, Marathi and Urdu and will begin publishing in Malayalam this November. Other events planned by Penguin this year include a new series of books titled “Indian Essentials” which are a quirky range of 20 short books.

Kunal Diwan

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