Writers Workshop (publisher)
Status | Active |
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Founded | 1957 |
Founder | Novels, Translations |
Official website | www |
Writers Workshop is a Kolkata-based literary publisher founded by the Indian poet and scholar Purushottama Lal in 1958. It has published many new Indian authors of post-independence urban literature. Many of these authors later became widely known.[1][2][3][4]
History
The Writers Workshop
Although it mainly publishes Indian writing in English, it has also published books in other modern Indian languages. To date, the press has published over 3500 titles of
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As Writers Workshop enters its sixth decade of existence, it has become an extremely important part of the literary history of India.
After Purushottama Lal's death in 2010, his family members now run his publishing house.
References
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- ^ "City remembers a great scholar & human". The Times of India. Kolkata, India. 14 November 2010. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012.
- ^ "I Remember An Idyll". Tehelka Magazine. 8 (2). 15 January 2011.
- ^ "The Writers Workshop Team". Writers' Workshop, India. Writers'Workshop, India. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Writers' Workshop @ fifty". The Hindu. 1 March 2009. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ^ "Rubana Huq, ed. The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Kolkata: Writers Workshop, 2008 ". Asiatic Journal at IIUM. Asiatic : IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "A life in five acts". HarmonyIndia.org. Harmony India : a social initiative of Dhirubhai Ambani Memorial Trust. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Biblio-beauties". LiveMint. LiveMint.Com. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "BEYOND THE ORDINARY - The calligrapher of Calcutta-45". TelegraphIndia.Com. TelegraphIndia. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "P Lal obituary". TheGuardian.com. TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Puroshottama Lal: sought to 'transcreate' an epic". TheNational.ae. TheNational.ae. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "The P. Lal transcreation of the complete epic text in 18 volumes". WritersWorkshop, India. WritersWorkshop, India. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- "Writers Workshop". Harmony Magazine.
- "50 Years of Writer's Workshop". The Hindu. 1 March 2009. Archived from the original on 4 March 2009.