(Harper) Perennial Favourites Find Their Way as Audiobooks, in Collaboration with Storytel

26 April, 2020. HarperCollins India and Storytel today announced the release of three outstanding audiobooks from the translations imprint Harper Perennial. The three titles are Vivek Shanbhag’s Ghachar Ghochar (translated by Srinath Perur), Vasudhendra’s Mohanaswamy (translated by Rashmi Terdal) and Kiran Nagarkar’s Seven Sixes are Forty-Three (translated by Shubha Slee).

All three novels have been narrated by carefully selected voices that match the mood and style of the stories. The audiobooks can be accessed via the Storytel app.

Vivek Shanbhag’s, Ghachar Ghochar is a quietly enthralling, deeply unsettling novel about the shifting meanings—and consequences—of success in contemporary India. Translated brilliantly from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, this New York Times Best Book of 2017 has established itself as a modern classic. Listen to a sample here: https://www.storytel.com/in/en/books/1173839-Ghachar-Ghochar

Mohanaswamy, written by Vasudhendra, explores sexuality, urbanization and class with a nuance and unflinching honesty that will both unnerve and move readers. A coming out of the closet for the author himself, these gritty stories are an excellent introduction to one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Kannada literature. Listen to a sample here: https://www.storytel.com/in/en/books/1173843-Mohanaswamy

Originally written in Marathi, Kiran Nagarkar’s first novel, Seven Sixes are Forty-Three, with its dark humour and volatile prose, is considered a landmark in post-Independence Indian literature. It tells the story of a writer living off the generosity of friends and lovers. Nagarkar, who passed away in September 2019, was known for his irreverence, sharp wit and savage humour. Listen to a sample here: https://www.storytel.com/in/en/books/1442195-Seven-Sixes-are-Forty-Three

Yogesh Dashrath, Country Manager, Storytel India, said:

‘Groundbreaking literature is often lost when people are not able to read it due to language constraints. With these being translated into English and now available as audiobooks on our platform, it makes it accessible to a larger audience. Signing up these three books with HarperCollins is our little effort towards making great literature accessible to anyone anytime, anywhere.’

 

Arcopol Chaudhuri, Rights and Backlist Manager, HarperCollins India, said:

 

‘Listening is also reading, especially when it comes to audiobooks. We’re thrilled to have these acclaimed titles, narrated by three superbly cast narrators, available to listeners on the Storytel app. For those of us who’ve read these books in print, the audio editions are a wonderful way to revisit each story. And for those who haven’t yet, this is a great opportunity to plug in and sample them in an exciting, affordable format, especially now, when access to physical books is restricted. The world needs an uninterrupted supply of stories — there is always room for more.’

For media queries, please contact:

Ankita Verma

+91 8879151992

ankita.verma@storytel.com

Prateek Agarwal

+91 9999679404

prateek.agarwal@harpercollins-india.com

 

About Storytel  

Storytel is an audiobook application where one gets unlimited access to stories anytime anywhere. Literary enthusiasts can look forward to some of the much sought-after titles on the app, and with promise of thousands and thousands of international titles updated every day. Storytel India provides a platform to established as well as young writers to create original series in Indian languages that take listeners into a new and exciting world of stories.

Pricing: The first 14 days are free for subscribers, and post which there is a subscription fee of INR 299. Under a monthly subscription, the subscriber gets access to unlimited stories in 9 languages (English, Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada). Availability: Storytel is available on both Google Play store http://bit.ly/2rriZaU and iOS App store https://apple.co/2zUcGkG

Storytel is Northern Europe’s leading audiobook and ebook streaming service and offers unlimited listening and reading of more than 300 000+ titles on a global scale. Our vision is to make the world a more empathetic place with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere and anytime. Storytel is a digital platform provider as well as a comprehensive publishing group. The streaming business area offers subscriptions for audiobooks and ebooks under the Storytel and Mofibo brands. Storytel’s publishing business area is carried out through the publishing houses Norstedts, Massolit, StorySide, Printz Publishing, People’s Press, Rabén & Sjögren, B.Wahlströms, Norstedts Kartor and Gummerus Kustannus. Ztory – a subscribed digital read-all-you-can streaming service for newspapers and magazines, is part of Storytel since January 2019. Storytel operates in 20 markets around the globe and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

https://www.storytel.com

 

About HarperCollins

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, the Crossword Book Award and the JCB Prize 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, at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018.

https://harpercollins.co.in/