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{{Short description|Publishing company}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
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| name = Aleph Book Company
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| founded = May 2011
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| headquarters = [[New Delhi]], India
| distribution = South Asia
| keypeople = {{ublist|[[David Davidar]]|R. K.Mehra|[[Kapish Mehra]]}}
| publications = Books
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| url = {{URL|alephbookcompany.com}}
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'''Aleph Book Company''' is an Indian publishing company. It was founded in May 2011 by [[David Davidar]], a novelist, publisher and former president of [[Random House of Canada|Penguin Books Canada]], in association with R. K. Mehra and [[Kapish Mehra]] of [[Rupa Publications]]. The headquarters of the company is situated in [[New Delhi]].

== Genesis ==
On his return to India from Canada where he served as the president of [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] Canada, [[David Davidar]] partnered [[Rupa Publications]] to found Aleph Book Company in May 2011.<ref name="Ex-Penguin Canada President David Davidar Launches Aleph Book Co. in India">{{Cite news |url=https://publishingperspectives.com/2011/05/ex-penguin-canada-president-david-davidar-launches-aleph-book-co-in-india/ |title=Ex-Penguin Canada President David Davidar Launches Aleph Book Co. in India |date=16 May 2011 |work=Publishing Perspectives |access-date=23 January 2018 }}</ref> The key people at the time of inception were R. K. Mehra and Kapish Mehra of Rupa Publications, besides Davidar. The headquarters of the company is at New Delhi and the logo was designed by Rymn Massand, an inspiration from [[Aleph]], the first letter of many of the [[semitic abjads]].<ref name="David Davidar, Rupa launch Aleph">{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/spotlight/David-Davidar-Rupa-launch-Aleph/articleshow/8362973.cms |title=David Davidar, Rupa launch Aleph |date=16 May 2011 |work=The Times of India |access-date=23 January 2018}}</ref>

== Business profile ==
The company publishes both fiction and non-fiction and has an author profile ranging from lesser known writers to established ones such as [[Romila Thapar]], [[Shashi Tharoor]], [[Khushwant Singh]], [[Cyrus Mistry]], [[Ruskin Bond]], [[Rajmohan Gandhi]] and [[Vikram Seth]], among others.<ref name="Aleph Book Company on ISSUU">{{Cite web |url=https://issuu.com/alephbookcompany |title=Aleph Book Company on ISSUU |date=23 January 2018 |website=issuu |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202234731/https://issuu.com/alephbookcompany |url-status=dead }}</ref> With a focus on Indian and other South Asian countries, the company publishes books in various genres including fiction, history, biography, autobiography, current events, reportage, travel, popular science, art, music, nature studies, the environment, business, translations, philosophy, sociology, psychology and popular culture.<ref name="About">{{Cite web |url=http://www.alephbookcompany.com/about/ |title=About |date=29 August 2015 |publisher=Aleph Book Company |access-date=23 January 2018}}</ref> Some of its publications have received various literary awards such as [[DSC Prize for South Asian Literature]],<ref name="Longlist Announced For The DSC Prize For South Asian Literature 2017">{{Cite web |url=http://dscprize.com/2017/08/10/longlist-announced-dsc-prize-south-asian-literature-2017/ |title=Longlist Announced for the DSC Prize For South Asian Literature 2017 |date=10 August 2017 |website=The DSC Prize for South Asian Literature |access-date=23 January 2018 |archive-date=21 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321003226/http://dscprize.com/2017/08/10/longlist-announced-dsc-prize-south-asian-literature-2017/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]<ref name="Mamang Dai, Ramesh Kuntal win Sahitya Akademi award">{{Cite news |url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/mamang-dai-ramesh-kuntal-win-sahitya-akademi-award-117122100719_1.html |title=Mamang Dai, Ramesh Kuntal win Sahitya Akademi award |date=21 December 2017 |work=Business Standard}}</ref> and Ramnath Goenka Award.<ref name="Ramnath Goenka Awards: Ravish Kumar and Ellen Barry among 26 journalists honoured for outstanding contributions in 2016">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2017/dec/20/ramnath-goenka-awards-ravish-kumar-and-ellen-barry-among-26-journalists-honoured-for-outstanding-co-1732779.html |title=Ramnath Goenka Awards: Ravish Kumar and Ellen Barry among 26 journalists honoured for outstanding contributions in 2016 |date=20 December 2017 |work=The New Indian Express}}</ref> It regularly publishes its catalog under the title, ''The Book of Aleph''.<ref name="Three publishing veterans push English fiction in India">{{Cite news |url=http://zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bookworm/bookworm-s-trail/three-publishing-veterans-push-english-fiction-in-india_2269.htm |title=Three publishing veterans push English fiction in India |date=12 April 2012 |work=Zee News |access-date=23 January 2018 }}</ref>

== Selected publications ==
* {{Cite book |title=The Book of Chocolate Saints |last=Jeet |first=Thayil |date=2018 |publisher=Aleph Book Company |isbn=9780571336104 |location=[S.l.] |oclc=991683350}}
* {{Cite book |title=Unhurried Tales: My Favourite Novellas |last=Ruskin |first=Bond |date=2017 |publisher=Aleph Book Company |isbn=9789386021885 |location=[S.l.] |oclc=1019588593}}
* {{Cite book |title=Saint Teresa of Calcutta: A Celebration of Her Life & Legacy |last=Rai |first=Raghu |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2017 |isbn=978-9382277613}}
* {{Cite book |title=Extraordinary Indians |last=Singh |first=Khushwant |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2017 |isbn=978-9383064731}}
* {{cite book|author=Ruskin Bond|title=Small Towns, Big Stories: New & Selected Fiction|year=2017|publisher=Aleph|isbn=978-93-82277-54-5}}
* {{Cite book |title=Abolishing the Death Penalty: Why India Should Say No to Capital Punishment |last=Gandhi |first=Gopalkrishna |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2016 |isbn=978-9382277781}}
* {{Cite book |title=Being the Other: The Muslim in India |last=Naqvi |first=Naqvi |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2016 |isbn=978-9384067229}}
* {{Cite book |title=India Shastra: Reflections on the Nation in our Time |last=Tharoor |first=Shashi |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2015 |isbn=978-9384067281}}
* {{Cite book |title=This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines |last=Dutt |first=Barkha |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2015 |isbn=978-9384067595}}
* {{Cite book |title=Passion Flower: Seven Stories of Derangement |last=Mistry |first=Cyrus |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2014 |isbn=978-9382277170}}
* {{Cite book |title=The Black Hill |last=Dai |first=Mamang |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2014 |isbn=978-9382277231}}
* {{Cite book |title=Summer Requiem: A Book of Poems |last=Seth |first=Vikram |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2012 |isbn=978-0297608745}}
* {{Cite book |title=[[Wild Himalaya|''Wild Himalaya: A Natural History of the Greatest Mountain Range on Earth'']] |last=Alter |first=Stephen |publisher=Aleph Book Company |year=2019 |isbn=978-9388292771}}

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|alephbookcompany.com}}
* {{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/AlephBookCompany?feature=mhee |title=Aleph Book Company on YouTube |date=23 January 2018 |via=YouTube |access-date=23 January 2018}}

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