The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature by Onaiza Drabu is an expansive anthology of poetry, songs, plays and stories spanning centuries of Kashmiri writing. Few anthologies offer such an entry into the literary world of Kashmir.
About The Big Book of Kashmiri Literature
This first-of-its-kind anthology translated from the Kashmiri language is as much an introduction into the literary landscape of Kashmir as a journey through its history. From premodern verse to radio plays, folk chants to metaphysical ghazals, flash fiction to excerpts from a novel, it is a compilation of memory and an anthology of voices. Readers encounter scholars, saints, experimental dramatists and unlettered poets from the fourteenth century to today. Kashmir’s thriving oral tradition, literary culture that borrowed from the East, and print culture that engaged with the West come together here. India Penguin paperback: ISBN 9789377300074, 664 pages, August 2026. Penguin Random House India.
