David Davidar
David Davidar is an award-winning novelist and the foremost publisher of Indian writers. He is the author of The House of Blue Mangoes, a New York Times Notable Book that was translated into 16 languages, and The Solitude of Emperors, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He is president/publisher of Penguin Canada and a founding director of Penguin India. He has published several of the world’s best known authors, among them winners of the Nobel Prize, Booker Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize, including: Kiran Desai, Yann Martel, V.S. Naipaul, Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, and Zadie Smith, among many others. A graduate of Radcliffe College/Harvard University’s publishing department, he resides in Toronto, Canada.
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