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Manasi Subramaniam

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Manasi Subramaniam
NationalityIndia
EducationM.A. Renaissance Literature, B.A. English Literature
Alma materYale University, Stanford University, University of York, University of Madras
OccupationLiterary Editor
EmployerPenguin Random House
HonoursYale World Fellowship

Manasi Subramaniam is an editor, currently serving as Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House India.[1][2] She was a 2022 Maurice R. Greenberg Yale World Fellow[3] at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University.[4][5]

Education

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Subramaniam has a B.A. in English Literature from Stella Maris College, University of Madras, where she was awarded the university gold medal in 2007, and an M.A. in Renaissance Literature from the University of York.[6][7] Additionally, Subramaniam has to her credit the Frankfurt Buchmesse fellowship,[8] the Bureau International de l'Édition Française fellowship,[9] the Australia Council for the Arts Visiting International Publishers fellowship,[10][11] and the Zev Birger fellowship.[12]

Subramaniam has also been a Maurice R. Greenberg Yale World Fellow at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University[13] and a Fisher Family Summer Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.[14]

Career

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Subramaniam is the Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President of Penguin Press at Penguin Random House India where she heads key imprints including Allen Lane, Viking, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin and Penguin Classics.[15][16]

Subramaniam has published some of the most exciting new voices across South Asia, including winners of the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, and several winners and finalists of international awards including the National Book Awards, Folio, JCB Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Women's Prize, Desmond Elliott Prize, among others. She is known for publishing The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, which won the 2022 Booker Prize,[17][18] Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, which won the 2022 International Booker Prize,[19][20][21] A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize, A Burning by Megha Majumdar, which won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar,[22] Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line[23] by Deepa Anappara, which was nominated for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature, 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, among others. She has worked with Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Neel Mukherjee, Akhil Sharma, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pico Iyer, Sunjeev Sahota, Tahmima Anam, Manu Pillai, Jeet Thayil, Gurmehar Kaur,[24] Meena Kandasamy,[25][26] Raj Kamal Jha, Harsh Mander, Kalki Koechlin and many others. She is the English-language publisher for several works of the Tamil writer Perumal Murugan[27][28] and several other Indian writers in translation.

Subramaniam has worked in academic research and amateur theatre.[29] She written about books for Scroll.in,[30] The Wire,[31] The Hindu Business Line,[32] The Hindu Literary Review,[33] The Asian Review of Books,[34] Mint Lounge[35][36] and The Sunday Guardian. She has been invited to speak at international literary festivals including the Tata Literature Live! festival in Mumbai, the Times Literature Festival in Bangalore and New Delhi, the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters in Trivandrum, and the Jaipur Literature Festival in Jaipur and Boulder, where she has been in conversation with writers including Arundhathi Subramaniam,[37] Tiffany Tsao,[38] T.M. Krishna,[39] Mukesh Bansal,[40] Defne Suman,[41] Jamie O'Connell[42] and Chigozie Obioma.[43]

References

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  1. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam replaces Gokhale as the new Editor in Chief for Penguin Press". Scroll.in. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Speakers 2025". Jaipur Literature Festival. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  3. ^ "Yale World Fellow". Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  4. ^ Asmuth, Abby (2022-12-01). "Penguin Random House India chief talks South Asian Literature". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  5. ^ "Silhouette E7: Manasi Subramaniam on South Asian Literature and Publishing". Yale Daily News. Yale University. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  6. ^ "York University awards its scholars". York Press. 2009-01-28. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  7. ^ "English student and graduate stories". Department of English and Related Literature. University of York. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  8. ^ "2012 Frankfurt Fellows Named". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Programme Fellowship à Paris 2014". Bureau International de l'Edition Francaise. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program". Books + Publishing. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam". Vimeo. Australia Council for the Arts. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  12. ^ Anderson, Porter. "Jerusalem International Book Fair Announces Zev Birger Fellows". Publishing Perspectives.
  13. ^ "Class of 2022". Jackson School of Global Affairs. Yale University. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Announcing the Inaugural Fisher Family Summer Fellows Cohort". Stanford CDDRL News. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  15. ^ Nayar, Mandira. "India's best literary editors spill the beans on what goes into a great book". The Week. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  16. ^ "How an editor knows she's reading the next big book". Mintlounge. 2022-02-27. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
  17. ^ "Booker prize winner Shehan Karunatilaka on writing, afterlife, cricket & more". Youtube. Penguin India. 2 March 2023.
  18. ^ Goyal, Sana. "What does this year's double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  19. ^ Alter, Alexandra (11 February 2023). "An Elegy to a Pluralistic, Polyglot India Wins Readers and Critics in the West". New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  20. ^ "International Booker winners Geetanjali Shree & Daisy Rockwell". Youtube. Penguin India. 9 February 2023.
  21. ^ "Tomb of Sand : Translations & Transformations Daisy Rockwell in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. December 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  22. ^ "A Burning: Writing and Resistance Megha Majumdar in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 26 June 2020.
  23. ^ "Interview with Manasi Subramaniam". Penguin Random House. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  24. ^ "Book Launch: Small Acts of Freedom". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. February 2018.
  25. ^ "Two Thousand Years of the Tirukkural: Poetry, Philosophy, Feminism". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 29 May 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  26. ^ "This Poem Will Provoke You: Meena Kandasamy, Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 25 April 2022.
  27. ^ "Perumal Murugan and Kannan Sundaram in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 11 March 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  28. ^ "Tamil writer Perumal Murugan wins 2023 JCB Literary Prize for Fire Bird". Indian Express. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  29. ^ "When the stage wooed her". The New Indian Express. 16 May 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  30. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam". Scroll.in. 26 April 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  31. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam". Wire. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  32. ^ "Paradise lost and regained". 27 January 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  33. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam". The Hindu Literary Review. The Hindu. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  34. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam". The Asian Review of Books Archive. The Asian Review of Books. 20 January 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  35. ^ "Manasi Subramaniam". Mint Lounge. Mint. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  36. ^ Subramaniam, Manasi. "Manasi Subramaniam". Mint Lounge. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  37. ^ "Women Who Wear Only Themselves Arundhathi Subramaniam in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 8 December 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  38. ^ "Tiffany Tsao in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". YouTube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  39. ^ "The Edict Project: Music and Meaning For Our Times". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival.
  40. ^ "Mukesh Bansal in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 13 April 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  41. ^ "The Silence of Scheherazade: Defne Suman in conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 14 October 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  42. ^ "Jamie O'Connell in Conversation with Manasi Subramaniam". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 5 May 2022.
  43. ^ "The Road to the Country In the Words of Chigozie Obioma". Youtube. Jaipur Literature Festival. 23 July 2023. Retrieved 14 July 2024.