According to a statement by the publishing company, the deal includes three fiction and three non-fiction books to be published globally in print, eBook and audio formats over the course of next five years.
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Mohanaswamy is a collection of short stories that explore the dilemmas of the eponymous character, a gay man, as he tries to come to terms with the choices he has made even as he aspires to live a dignified and simple life.
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Harper Collins has published the Spanish translation of Mohana Swamy, an account of life as a gay man in small-town Karnataka. Spanish is the official language in 20 countries, besides being the second most widely spoken language in the US. “Many people tell me it is the first Kannada book to be translated into Spanish,” Vasudhendra says. The corpus of gay literature in Europe is huge. The LGBT community in those parts is curious to know how gay life is perceived in India, he says. The book first published in 2013, Mohana Swamy has gone into five reprints in Kannada. Its English translation by Rashmi Terdal appeared a little later. “It is also being translated into Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. Mohana Swamy was received well in Kannada, with girls and women identifying with the character of Mohana Swamy,” Vasudhendra, who …
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