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HarperCollins India is sponsoring a Free, Open library in Bhubaneshwar in collaboration with Walking BookFairs.

New Delhi, July 12, 2019: HarperCollins India is delighted to announce that it has collaborated with Walking BookFairs, an independent bookstore, to sponsor a free library in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. The library will be inaugurated on July 14, 2019. Author Rajesh Patil will be doing a special reading from his book, Maa I’ve Become a Collector.

HarperCollins firmly believes in inculcating and instilling the reading habit among the masses. The Walking BookFairs-HarperCollins Free Library in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, has been designed as an inclusive, safe, fun space that is open to all, irrespective of their social and economic backgrounds. It is our hope that people will come together, share ideas, and create a beautiful new world through books, poetry, stories, art and cinema. The library will house about 500 of the best books from various genres published by HarperCollins, among other books in English, Hindi and Odia. There will also be a children’s section with delightful books for children of all ages to encourage reading for pleasure in young children, which will help nurture empathetic, sensitive individuals with a better understanding of the self and the world around them.

The library is housed in a bookstore which makes it even more fun. It is going to be a must-visit must-see place for people visiting the eastern state of Odisha from all over the world.

The association between Walking BookFairs and HarperCollins India goes back a long way. In 2015–16, HarperCollins India was one of the three publishers who part-supported the Walking BookFairs ‘Read More India’ campaign – a 90-day pan-India tour taking 4000 books in a book truck around 20 states of India. In 2018–19 again HarperCollins supported a unique campaign by Walking BookFairs – ‘Poems On The Road’ – India’s first-ever travelling poetry library and bookstore which travelled to 30 Indian cities across 20 states with a poetry van carrying 500 of the best poetry books from around the world and conducted open mics on the road, in public spaces, in universities, schools and colleges to make poetry books accessible and also promote the idea that bookstores and libraries are democratic physical spaces where everybody is equal and welcome.

About WALKING BOOKFAIRS

Walking BookFairs was started with the belief that books are for everybody and books should reach more people everywhere. Walking BookFairs has been reaching books to people in many different ways for the last five years. Starting from books on the footpaths of small towns and villages in the Koraput district of Odisha, books in backpacks, a book truck, a book van, a book cycle, a book shack to a brick and mortar bookstore and library, Walking BookFairs has travelled more than 30,000 kilometres across 20 states of India with a travelling library and bookstore to promote reading, and to spread the message that books are essential and physical bookstores and libraries are essential spaces in our society.

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 enquires to Akriti Tyagi, HarperCollins India:
Akriti.Tyagi@harpercollins.co.in

 

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