HarperCollins India is delighted to announce the acquisition of The Gopi Diaries by India’s favourite children’s author, SUDHA MURTY

New Delhi, July 12, 2019:

HarperCollins India is delighted to announce
the acquisition The Gopi Diaries by one of India’s favourite children’s author,
SUDHA MURTY

About The Gopi Diaries

The Gopi Diaries is a series of three books for children about a dog called Gopi.

Told in Gopi’s voice, the first book begins with Gopi coming home, and tells the story of how he settles down with his loving, human family. How Gopi sees the world around him and what he thinks of the people in his life give the story a truly unique flavour. Told in Sudha Murty’s inimitable style, these are books children and adults will treasure as the simple stories talk of basic values even when told from a dog’s perspective.

Talking about the series, Mrs. Sudha Murty says, “This is my first book with HarperCollins. It is also my first book for youngsters, particularly those kids who love animals. It is about my dog Gopi who is the joy of my life. The Gopi Diaries is a series of three books and the first book tells the story of Gopi coming home. Gopi and I are excited to see this book. I am sure you will all enjoy it, the way I did writing it.”

Tina Narang, Children’s Publisher, who acquired the series says, “We are absolutely delighted to be publishing Mrs. Murty at HarperCollins. In all my years in children’s publishing, it has been a dream to publish Mrs. Murty. Children will love the Gopi Diaries. Mrs. Murty writes from her heart, and when the subject is as close to her heart as Gopi is, the stories are bound to be as charming as it gets.”

About SUDHA MURTY

Sudha Murty was born in 1950 in Shiggaon, north Karnataka. She did her MTech in computer science, and is now the chairperson of the Infosys Foundation. A prolific writer in English and Kannada, she has written novels, technical books, travelogues, collections of short stories and non-fiction pieces, and eight bestselling books for children. Her books have been translated into all major Indian languages. Sudha Murty is the recipient of the R.K. Narayan Award for Literature (2006), the Padma Shri (2006), the Attimabbe Award from the Government of Karnataka for excellence in Kannada literature (2011) and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Crossword Book Awards.

About HARPERCOLLINS INDIA

HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2000 titles across 10 imprints. HarperCollins India authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize, the DSC Prize, the New India Foundation Award, the Atta Galatta Prize, the Shakti Bhatt Prize, the Publishing Next Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Crossword Book Award. HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Oneworld, Bonnie Zaffre, Usborne, Dover and Lonely Planet. HarperCollins India is also the only publisher to have been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award three times: at Publishing Next in 2015, and at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018.

Please send any inquiries to Akriti Tyagi, HarperCollins India: Akriti.Tyagi@harpercollins.co.in