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WRITERS WORKSHOP is an independent publishing house that was founded in 1958 by Professor P. Lal. Lal’s Mahabharata and Maitreyi Devi’s 'It Does Not Die'.

WRITERS WORKSHOP was founded in 1958, consisting of a group of writers headed by Professor P. Lal who agreed in principle that English had proved its ability, as a language, to play a creative role in Indian literature, through original writing and translation. Its task was of defining and substantiating the role by discussion and diffusion of creative writing and transcreation from India and othe

r English-using countries. Discussions were held on Sunday mornings at 162/92 Lake Gardens, Kolkata 700045, and diffusion done through books issued under the WRITERS WORKSHOP imprint and a periodical, The Miscellany. Since 1970 the WORKSHOP laid increasing emphasis on its publishing programme, and has over 2500 titles to its credit, including the early works of many now-established authors of Indian writing in English, like Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Ruskin Bond, Asif Currimbhoy, A K Ramanujan, G V Desani, K R Srinivasa Iyengar, Shiv Kumar, Adil Jussawalla, Keki Daruwalla, Jayanta Mahapatra, Pritish Nandy, Shashi Deshpande, Meena Alexander, Lakshmi Kannan, Agha Shahid Ali, Mamang Dai, Temsula Ao, Maggi Lidchi-Grassi, Hoshang Merchant, Jug Suraiya, Sukanta Chaudhuri, Chitra Divakaruni and Vikram Seth. The WORKSHOP also pioneered the systematic publication of such classic translations from Indian regional languages into English as P. It gives preference to experimental work by young and unpublished writers, its two chief criteria for selection being high imaginative awareness and mature technique. It is non-profit and non-political. For further details, contact us at [email protected].

06/05/2025

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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 (prolifically) poems, plays and essays from his late teens and early twenties. He was the literary editor of "Dainik Sambad" in Dhaka and was forced to leave Bangladesh in 1974 after being imprisoned the year before for writing a poem that was perceived to be critical of religion. He lived in exile at first in Kolkata and then in Berlin.

Writers Workshop published his poems in translation, 'Holding an Afternoon and a Lethal Firearm' (translated by another author of ours, Lila Ray) in 1981. A poem from this collection that feels almost prescient when read today is shared on our website (linked here).

News Daud Haider ~ 21 February 1952 – 26 April 2025 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 poe...

23/04/2025

To read more about our release this month, Bharat Luthra’s ‘Nothingness ~ Love Poems’, visit our website at https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/nothingness-love-poems/.

You may order the book here: https://www.monographmag.com/product-page/nothingness-love-poems

12/04/2025

Sritama Sen’s ‘There Used to Be a Lake Here Once’ adjudged runner-up in poetry at the Muse India Young Writer Awards 2024. Riya Kartha’s ‘Earthsongs’ and Vyshnavee Diwakar’s ‘Delphic Diatribes’ were featured in Muse India’s shortlist for the awards last month. Order their books!

17/03/2025

Dilip Menon’s collection, 'Quo Vida’, will strike a chord with every reader, no exceptions, for obvious reasons. It is also beautifully written.

To learn more about the book visit our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/quo-vida/
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13/03/2025

Satish Kumar Sharma’s sensitive collection of poetry, ‘Hope in the Season of No Flowers’, is a must read.

To learn more about the book visit our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/hope-in-the-season-of-no-flowers/

To place your order:
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[Creative by Niharika Rajsaha]

08/03/2025

We wish our readers a Happy Women's Day!

Meera Chakravorty's books featured in this post are:

1. Carry Your Little Flute
2. Gandhari and Other Poems
3. Murmures Du Vent Qui Emprunte
4. The Remnant Glow
5. Whispers from the Borrowing Wind

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20/01/2025

We are delighted to start the new year with the release of Arun and Sunitha’s collection of poetry, ‘Harbour Eyes’.

To learn more about the book visit our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/harbour-eyes/

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21/12/2024

Jyotish Gopinathan’s restrained and carefully crafted collection of poetry is a must read. To know more about our latest release, ‘The Coppiced House,’ visit our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/the-coppiced-house/

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13/12/2024

We are delighted to announce the release of Gopikrishnan Kottoor’s translation of Pūntānam’s Jnānappānā, a centuries-old work that contains the essence of the Vedas and Upanishads rendered in humble vein.

Read more about the book on our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/puntanams-jnanappana-the-song-of-wisdom/

To place your order:
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10/12/2024

We are proud to announce the release of the book ‘Folktales from Sikkim’, edited by Professor Rosy Chamling and Dr. Abrona Lee Pandi Aden.

Read more about the book on our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/folktales-from-sikkim/

To place your order:
→ Email us at [email protected]
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→ Order online from Monograph: https://www.monographmag.com/product-page/folktales-from-sikkim

25/11/2024

What better way to mark the onset of winter than with a crisp poetry collection called 'The Patchwork Quilt'? This is Sunaina Jain's first poetry book, a "personal journey of revelations and epiphanies about her own evolving self".

Read more about the book on our website: https://www.writersworkshopindia.com/books/the-patchwork-quilt/

To place your order:
→ Email us at [email protected]
OR
→ Send us a message using the ‘Contact Us‘ feature on our website
OR
→ Order online from Monograph: https://www.monographmag.com/product-page/the-patchwork-quilt

14/11/2024

Featured in the photo, Professor P. Lal's

* The Four Riddles
* The Four Sights
* The Koel & the Cotton Tree
* The Saffron Cat

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