About Seagull Books in 31A S. P. Mukherjee Road, Kolkata

Seagull Books was founded by Naveen Kishore in 1982 as an independent Indian publishing house specializing in serious books on art, theatre and cinema. It published plays by major Indian playwrights, monographs and essays by leading Indian artists, film scripts from the best-known Indian and European filmmakers, along with academic titles on culture, society, and the various arts.

Since 2005, Seagull Books (London), as an international, still independent publisher, has ventured into newer fields of publishing, including series of English translations of fiction and non-fiction by major African, European, Asian and Latin American writers. It now boasts of a backlist of over 300 titles. Beginning with authors such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Jorge Luis Borges, Theodor W. Adorno, Aimé Césaire, Thomas Bernhard, Edward Said, André Gorz, Satyajit Ray, Peter Weiss and Max Frisch, Seagull Books now represents major contemporary writers such as Yves Bonnefoy, Philippe Jaccottet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Mahasweta Devi, Peter Handke, Pascal Quignard, Hélène Cixous, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Marc Augé and many more.

The hallmark 'Africa List' brings forth writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Maryse Condé, Ivan Vladislavić, William Kentridge, Kossi Efoui and Abdourrahman A. Waberi. European writers lesser known to the English-speaking world are also showcased by Seagull—Ralf Rothmann, Tilman Rammstedt, Inka Parei, Dorothee Elmiger, Tomas Espedal, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez . . . The list expands as we write!

In 2012, Seagull author Mo Yan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, while in 2015, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, who Seagull is about to publish, received the prestigious Man Booker International Prize.

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