Manasi Subramaniam
Indian editor
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Manasi Subramaniam is an Indian publisher. Until December 2025, she was Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President at Penguin Random House India.[1][2][3][4] She is a Yale World Fellow[5][6][7] and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.[8][9]
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| Education | M.A. Renaissance Literature, B.A. English Literature |
| Alma mater | Yale University, Stanford University, University of York, University of Madras |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Honours | Yale World Fellowship, WEF Young Global Leader |
| Website | https://www.manasisubramaniam.com/ |
Education and Fellowships
Subramaniam has a B.A. in English Literature from Stella Maris College, University of Madras, and an M.A. in Renaissance Literature from the University of York.[10][11]
Additionally, Subramaniam was awarded a Frankfurt Buchmesse fellowship,[12] the Bureau International de l'Édition Française fellowship,[13] the Australia Council for the Arts Visiting International Publishers fellowship,[14][15] the Zev Birger fellowship[16] and a Pro Helvetia residency.
Subramaniam has also been a Maurice R. Greenberg Yale World Fellow at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University[17] and a Fisher Family Summer Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.[18] She was named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class of 2025.[19]
Publishing career
Subramaniam was Editor-in-Chief and Vice-President at Penguin Random House India until December 2025. She oversaw literary publishing across imprints including Allen Lane, Viking, Hamish Hamilton, Penguin and Penguin Classics.[20][21]
Subramaniam has writers across South Asia who have received international literary recognition, including winners of the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize, and several winners and finalists of international awards.
She published The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, which won the 2022 Booker Prize,[22][23] Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, which won the 2022 International Booker Prize,[24][25][26] Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, which was shortlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize,[27][28] A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize,[29] A Burning by Megha Majumdar, which won the 2022 Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar,[30] Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line[31] by Deepa Anappara, which was nominated for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature, 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, among others.
She has worked with Arundhati Roy,[32] Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai,[33] Neel Mukherjee, Akhil Sharma, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pico Iyer, Sunjeev Sahota, Tahmima Anam, Manu Pillai,[34][35][36] Jeet Thayil, Gurmehar Kaur,[37] Meena Kandasamy,[38][39] Raj Kamal Jha,[40] Harsh Mander, Kalki Koechlin, Srinath Raghavan and many others. She is the English-language publisher for several works of the Tamil writer Perumal Murugan[41][42] and several other Indian writers in translation.
Other Activities
Subramaniam has worked in academic research and amateur theatre.[43] She written about books for Scroll.in,[44] The Wire,[45] The Hindu Business Line,[46] The Hindu Literary Review,[47] The Asian Review of Books,[48] Mint Lounge[49][50] and The Sunday Guardian.
She has been invited to speak at international literary festivals.[51][52][53] [54][55][56][57][58][59]