Manasi Subramaniam

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Manasi Subramaniam
Nationality India
Education M.A. Renaissance Literature, B.A. English Literature
Alma mater Yale University, Stanford University, University of York, University of Madras
Occupation Literary Editor
Employer Penguin Random House
Honours Yale 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]

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Education

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

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]

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