Karthika V. K.

Bio

Karthika V.K. is Publisher, Westland Books. She has spent over twenty-five years editing and publishing fiction, non-fiction, translations, poetry and graphic novels. She started her career at Penguin Books India and spent a decade as Publisher, HarperCollins Publishers India before moving to Westland, where she set up Context, an imprint that focuses on literature and politics. She has published several award-winning and commercially successful writers including Anita Nair, Aravind Adiga, Devapriya Roy, Josy Joseph, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Manu Joseph, Manu Pillai, M. Mukundan, Nilanjana S. Roy, Nisha Susan, Paul Zacharia, Perumal Murugan, Ranbir Sidhu, Rohini Mohan, Rukmini S. and Shashi Deshpande.