HarperCollins India to exclusively sell and distribute Harvard University Press publications in the Indian subcontinent

New Delhi, October 10, 2019: Harvard University Press and HarperCollins India announced a new collaboration in South Asia today. HarperCollins India will have exclusive rights to sell and distribute Harvard University Press publications in the Indian subcontinent.

The arrangement was announced by George Andreou, Director of Harvard University Press, and Ananth Padmanabhan, Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins India.
“We look forward to having HarperCollins India, with their excellent reputation and strong presence, represent our titles in this important, growing market,” said George Andreou.

Ananth Padmanabhan remarked, “I’m delighted we will be representing Harvard University Press in India. I’ve long admired their publishing program — which includes the prestigious Murty Classical Library — for its dynamism and intellectual vigor, and I’m looking forward very much to expanding HUP’s readership in a market as young and vibrant as India.”

About HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Harvard University Press was established in 1913 and offers books for a general readership as well as professional audiences from renowned experts and new voices who are redefining entire fields of inquiry. Over the past century, the Press has published such authors as John Rawls, E.O. Wilson, Toni Morrison, Helen Vendler, Stephen Jay Gould, Carol Gilligan, Mary Beard, Amartya Sen, and Thomas Piketty. Harvard University Press’s list of influential authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, and the National Book Award. The Press’s commitment to publishing works in translation is exemplified by an unparalleled collection of world classics in bilingual editions, including the iconic Loeb Classical Library and the critically acclaimed Murty Classical Library of India series. A division of Harvard University, Harvard University Press has offices in Cambridge, MA and London.

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, Bonnier 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.

Contacts
Harvard University Press — Richard Howells (richard_howells@harvard.edu)
HarperCollins India — Akriti Tyagi (akriti.tyagi@harpercollins.co.in)