By Hannah Johnson
After attending a panel at the Frankfurt Book Fair on the rise of local languages in India’s literature, Tolu Ogunlesi wrote that India’s “publishing industry (publishing in local languages) is booming, and more Indian-language books are being directly translated into foreign languages, without having to go through the traditional English route.”
If India’s publishing industry concentrates on literature written in any of its 22 official languages other than English, it’s possible that UK and US readers might not benefit from the richness of this emerging body of work.
It’s often said in the publishing industry that the English-language markets translate fewer books than other markets. Does this mean that fewer Indian titles make their way into English language markets?
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