Current company Penguin Random House India
Book and Periodical Publishing · 253 employees · Founded 1987 · India
Penguin Random House India (PRHI) is a subsidiary of Penguin Random House (PRH), a leading global publishing company. PRH was formed in 2013 after the merger between Penguin & Random House. As part of the global merger, Penguin Books India & Random House India came together to form PRHI. Bertelsmann became the sole owner of PRH in 2020. PRHI publishes in English & Hindi while partnering with regional publishing houses to publish across Indian languages including Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati & Kannada. PRHI has published books by well-known & emerging authors from India & abroad, such as Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, Arundhati Roy, Ruskin Bond, Sudha Murty, Durjoy Datta,(Lt.) Khushwant Singh, Former President of India (Lt.) APJ Abdul Kalam, Upmanyu Chatterjee, Hussain Zaidi, Ravinder Singh, Sudeep Nagarkar, Novoneel Chakraborty, PMO Shri. Narendra Modi, Krishna Udayshankar, Saurabh Mukherjea, Prakash Iyer, R. Gopalakrishnan, Harish Bhat, Sadhguru & Gaur Gopal Das, among others. Additionally, PRHI promotes reading & literacy through the sub-continent through literary events, book launches & book fairs. Since its inception in 1985 in India, PRHI has become one of the most recognised names in the industry. We have an active backlist of titles and release 300 new ones every year. PRHI\'s portfolio consists of authors who have won major literary prizes, including the Booker Prize, the International Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, the Magsaysay Award, the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Commonwealth Writer\'s Prize & more. PRHI publishes books across various genres, including literary fiction, romance, thrillers, fantasy, memoirs, biography, self-help, mind, body & spirit, historical non-fiction, politics, creative non-fiction, health, children\'s literature, YA fiction & non-fiction. We have a rich collection of audiobooks & e-books, & many of our stories have been adapted into films & web series.