2022
Manasi Subramaniam
Editor-in-Chief
Penguin Random House India
Manasi Subramaniam is editor-in-chief and vice president at Penguin Random House India, where she leads the company's literary publishing program across iconic imprints including Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Viking, Allen Lane and Penguin Classics. She has published winners of the Booker, Pulitzer and Sahitya Akademi prizes, as well as several laureates and finalists of global awards including the Nobel Prize, Women's Prize, National Book Awards, JCB Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal and Folio Prize. Her list includes Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Perumal Murugan, Shehan Karunatilaka, Geetanjali Shree and others.
She was a 2022 Yale World Fellow, a 2023 Raisina Young Fellow and a 2023 Fisher Family Summer Fellow at Stanford, and in 2025 was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She has received fellowships from the Frankfurt Buchmesse, BIEF (Paris), the Australia Council for the Arts and the Jerusalem Book Forum. A cultural advocate and champion of underrepresented voices, she serves on Penguin's DEI Council and has led pioneering efforts in literary translation. She studied Renaissance literature at the University of York, and English literature at Stella Maris College, University of Madras, where she won the university gold medal.The 2022 World Fellows
Yale University’s Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program has named its 2022 class of World Fellows. These 16 extraordinary individuals consist of global leaders working in government, the environment, technology, journalism, international development, and the arts, around the world—from China to Uruguay, from Belarus to South Africa. “In a time of conflict and volatility, there is an urgent need for leaders around the world who are committed to making the world more peaceful and just,” said Emma Sky, director of the International Leadership Center at Yale. “The 2022 World Fellows exemplify the kind of innovative and adaptive leadership that is needed in today’s world. They are tackling some of the...Read More
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Manasi Subramaniam Gives Talk on South Asian Literature
“Literature from South Asia has had a moment of reckoning in 2022: things may never be the same again.”