Penguin Books India is the largest and most respected English-language trade publisher in the subcontinent. Headquartered in New Delhi, the company's commercial activity includes the publishing of its own books in English, as well as in Hindi, Marathi and Malayalam, and the distribution of books from overseas and local publishers, including the Penguin Group, A&C Black, Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber, Greenwood Publishing, Quercus, Sterling, Hay House and Zubaan.

Founded in 1985, Penguin began publishing in October 1987 with seven titles. Today, the company publishes more than 200 new titles every year and has an active backlist of over 2000 titles.

Known for its strong fiction and narrative non-fiction list, Penguin India has published across virtually every segment, including self-help, cookery, reference, biography, travel, picture books, business, politics, history, sports, health and fitness and religion and philosophy.

Penguin's authors have won almost every major literary prize, including the Nobel Prize, the Jnanpith Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; several of our authors are also recipients of the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan, the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Shri, India's highest civilian honours.

Penguin's biggest publishing initiatives in the recent past include the launch of its Indian Language Publishing programme in 2005; Portfolio, its business imprint, in 2006; Allen Lane, the ‘imprint of ideas’, in 2008 and Hamish Hamilton, the high-profile imprint for literary fiction and non-fiction, in 2009. Shobhaa Dé Books, the eponymous list commissioned by the celebrated author, and Metro reads, a series of mass-market books, were launched in early 2010.

Penguin's children's imprint, Puffin, since its re-launch in 2003, has met with a tremendous response, with several of its titles becoming bestsellers. Puffin titles are marked by stunning illustrations by leading artists in the country, and production quality that meets the highest international standards.

Penguin India also publishes Indian stories in Ladybird's internationally bestselling Favourite Tales series and was the first to publish Ladybird books outside the UK.