Indian Author: Anushka Ravishankar & her Books!
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This week's pick of the Indian Author is "Anushka Ravishankar".
[Thanks Wikipedia:
Anushka Ravishankar is an award-winning author of children's books, and co-founder of Duckbill Books, a publishing house.
This week's pick of the Indian Author is "Anushka Ravishankar".
- Anushka Ravishankar is the author of several international award-winning books. She has written more than thirty books-verse, fiction and non-fiction-many of which have been translated into several languages.
[Thanks Wikipedia:
Anushka Ravishankar is an award-winning author of children's books, and co-founder of Duckbill Books, a publishing house.
Ravishankar sent her first few stories to Tinkle, a comic book published by Amar Chitra Katha. When two of these stories won a contest organised by the magazine, the publisher of Tinkle offered her a job, but Ravishankar could only freelance for Tinkle as she was staying home to care for her young daughter. When her family moved to Chennai in 1996, she was hired to be an editor at Tara Books, a children's publishing house in the city. There she authored Tiger on a Tree, a book of nonsense verse that was translated to Japanese, Korean and French. While the book only sold about 2500 copies in India, it sold over 10000 copies in the United States and over 7000 copies in France. She also worked as Publishing Director at Scholastic India.
She founded the Duckbill Publishing House in 2012 with Sayoni Basu.
She is sometimes called the Indian Dr. Seuss.
While Ravishankar writes both picture books and chapter books, her specialty lies in writing nonsense verse for children. ]
[http://www.edexlive.com/live-story/2017/feb/24/this-is-the-most-sense-nonsense-will-make-52.html
Anushka Ravishankar and the art of writing nonsense for children!
After novelising the movie Dhanak, author Anushka Ravishankar, the reigning queen of nonsense literature, talks about why writing for children is where it's at and how they need to keep reading
“I like my verse to be slightly irregular and offbeat, in that sense, I think my writing reminds people of the writing of Dr Seuss,” says the author clearly embarrassed for the comparison with the path-breaking American writer.
To put things into perspective, nonsense literature is the fine art of balancing logic with the illogical by defying sense or flouting convention. “There is not much market for it in India. It’s a strange genre, not for everybody. It’s like a sense of humour either you have it or you don’t. A lot of people have looked at the nonsense I have written and asked me why I do this. I say nothing. What else can I do? It’s like telling somebody a joke and they just don’t get it!” says the author exasperated. While nonsense literature is an acquired taste, writing for children is no child’s play either. “You have to have a memory of how it was like to be a child and you have to write from that memory. It's not a special ability, it's just either you have it or you don’t,” she says elucidating, like a true bookworm, by referring to a book by Alsion Bree (?) which explained how authors like JK Rowling are able to write for children because they have preserved the child within them. ]
Some of her books are :-
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Book # 1:
₹ 135 ₹150(10% Off)
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"Anushka Ravishankar, Jerry Pinto, Sayoni Basu"
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Duckbill Books
Three grandparents. Three states. Three stories. Four blasts. Authors Jerry Pinto, Anushka Ravishankar and Sayoni Basu delve into their childhood memories of Goa, Kerala and Bengal, respectively, and come up with three explosive stories. With brilliant illustrations by Vinayak Varma, this book adds a whole new dimension to the term grandmothers' tales.
- Jerry Pinto is a journalist who also writes poetry, prose and childrens fiction. His books include Helen: The Life and Times of an H-Bomb (2006) which won the Best Book on Cinema Award at the 54th National Film Awards, Surviving Women (2000) and Asylum and Other Poems (2003). His first novel Em and the Big Hoom won the Hindu Literary Prize in 2013.
- Sayoni Basu is an editor of childrens books. She has probably written more words than her two co-authors but in the form of emails, contracts and excel sheets.
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Book # 2:
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What is the connection between a murder in 1919 Stockholm and a drug ring in present-day India? Sherlock Holmes is dead, but his legacy lives on in unexpected ways. In stories spanning almost a century, in cities half a world away from each other, the magnifying glass of Sherlock Holmes appears just when there is a mystery to solve. But its appearance throws up other questions: who was John Watson? Was he really what he seemed to be? And how and why are his heirs involved in the mysteries? Two Swedish and two Indian authors--Martin Widmark, Anushka Ravishankar, Katarina Genar and Bikram Ghosh--follow the journey of the magnifying glass of Sherlock Holmes in four gripping mystery stories.
- Martin Widmark is considered one of the giants of current children?s fiction. His books are consistently on the best-seller lists and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
- Katarina Genar is the author of several critically acclaimed novels for children that are loved by the young readers. Her stories contain several layers, both enigmatic and somewhat mysterious.
- Bikram Ghosh is an actor, director and storyteller based in New Delhi. He is a founder and Company Manager of the Tadpole Repertory, one of Delhi most prominent theatre groups.
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