Westland Books - A division of Nasadiya Technologies Private Limited
No.269/2B, First Floor, 'Irai Arul', Vimalraj Street
Chennai, 600095
India
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About
Westland Books is an independent trade publishing house, home to many of India’s award-winning and path-breaking writers. We publish over 100 books a year across twelve distinct imprints: Westland (commercial fiction and non-fiction), Westland Business, Context (politically engaged non-fiction and literary fiction), Tranquebar (literary fiction from new voices), Ekada (original writing and translation in ten Indian languages including English), Westland Sport, Pratilipi Paperbacks (genre fiction in Indian languages), Pratilipi Comics (graphic fiction and non-fiction), IF (speculative fiction), Red Panda (children’s books), QD (queer writing), and Indie Press (custom publishing).
Westland is a pan-Indian, multi-language publisher with a 360-degree approach to trade publishing. Westland publishes both commercially successful writers like Rujuta Diwekar, Christopher Doyle and Anand Neelakantan as well as critically acclaimed writers like Amitav Ghosh (in the languages), Perumal Murugan (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2022), Vinod Kumar Shukla (winner of the Nabokov Award 2022), K.R. Meera and Manoranjan Byapari, Sara Rai. Nilanjana Roy, Ranbir Siddhu, Mirza Wahid, Siddharth Deb in fiction, and Josy Joseph, Christophe Jaffrelot and TM Krishna in non-fiction. Its literary fiction and non-fiction titles have won and appeared on the shortlists of the country’s most prestigious awards, like the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the JCB Prize for Literature, the Crossword Book Award, the Tata Lit Live Award, the Mathrubhumi Book of the Year Award, among others.
As part of India's largest online storytelling platform, Pratilipi (which has over 9,50,000 writers writing in 12 languages on the app and over 30 million daily active readers), apart from full-fledged trade publishing, Westland Books is taking its stories into multiple digital formats like audio books, e-serialisation on apps, comic books, motion comics, OTT platforms and podcasts (IVM).