Tag Archives: Book fair

An Ocean of Art: The Bologna Illustrators’ Annual 2013

By admin | Published: April 8, 2013

In January, Tara publisher Gita Wolf was invited to be part of the jury to select entries for the prestigious Bologna Illustrators’ Annual for 2013. The selected illustrators were announced at the Bologna Book Fair last month, and their work was displayed at the fair. Here she writes about the experience and reflects upon how [...]

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The Korean Connection

By admin | Published: July 6, 2012

Reflecting on our blossoming relationship with Korea “For me, Tara Books is a publisher which has a strong identity. And this identity lies on the border between not only what is local and what is universal, but also what is traditional and what is contemporary. Their approach to the book is something between the view [...]

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A Designer’s Journey: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail

By admin | Published: February 13, 2012

Tara’s outgoing resident designer Jonathan Yamakami reflects upon the creative journey he embarked upon when working on ‘I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail’. A 17th century English ‘trick’ poem, Tara’s version is illustrated by artist Ramsingh Urveti from India’s Gond tribe.   25 people like this post. Like Unlike

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A Book Trail in Mexico

By admin | Published: January 7, 2012

I was invited to the Guadalajara book fair, recently, on a publisher’s fellowship. Afterwards, my travels around Mexico took me to the state of Chiapas, to visit an extraordinary book making cooperative of Mayan women called Taller Lenateros, The Woodlanders’ Workshop. Impossible to sum up otherwise, I decided to turn my experience into a small [...]

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Thoughts from Russia

By admin | Published: October 7, 2009

Reflections after the Moscow Book Fair, ’09 When I was invited to be part of the Indian delegation to the Moscow Book Fair last month, the ghost of an old love stirred again…and I thought once more about the wonderful Soviet books that I had read as a child. 2 people like this post. Like [...]

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