At Deutsche Welle Priya Esselborn reports on The German-English-Indian book triangle -- noting that, amazingly and bizarrely:
Given how shamefully timid the major American and British publishers have become regarding fiction in translation, it's great to see not only independents in the US and UK rise to the challenge, but now also publishers such as Seagull take up some of the slack.
In 1982, Naveen Kishore founded Seagull Books in India's megacity, Kolkata. Today, it is the world's most prolific publisher of German literature in English.It's a great publisher (and not just of books from the German -- from Pascal Quignard (The Roving Shadows) to Mo Yan (Change), they have a hell of list) and a fair number of their titles are under review at the complete review, and many more will follow.
Given how shamefully timid the major American and British publishers have become regarding fiction in translation, it's great to see not only independents in the US and UK rise to the challenge, but now also publishers such as Seagull take up some of the slack.