In India’s YA fantasy fiction space, it’s a pitched battle for page views
Hindustan TimesIn publishing, a good story is often just the start. Even the bookshops here give them prominent space,” says Venita Coelho, author of critically acclaimed children’s books such as Dead as a Dodo and Tiger by the Tail. It’s a cycle that began with Harry Potter, moved through the Twilight and the Hunger Games books and films and along the way created space for scores of writers to tell tales of their own — a recent example being Shadow and Bone, written by Leigh Bardugo and released in 2012, and now a popular Netflix series. Devika Rangachari’s Queen of Ice, about a beautiful, ambitious and physically challenged princess Didda, in 10th-century Kashmir.” The Indian YA fantasy fiction space hasn’t really taken off in the Indian market and that’s the saddest bit, says Arpita Nath, associate commissioning editor at Penguin Random House India. Publishers are doing all they can.” YOUNG ADULT FANTASY: A TIMELINE * 1802: The term “young adulthood” is credited to British author and critic of children’s literature Sarah Trimmer, who used the term in her periodical, The Guardian of Education and defined it as lasting from the ages 14 to 21.
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