About Us

Vani Prakashan Group has been publishing finest Hindi literature for 60 years in over 38 genres. It has published over 7,000 books in print, electronic and audio format. It has a footprint in more than 3,00,000 villages, 2,800 towns, 54 major cities and 12 major online book stores in the country. The group has taken over the publishing program of India's oldest publishing house 'Bharatiya Jnanpith' that was established in 1944. With this, the Vani Prakashan Group is Hindi's largest publishing conglomerate.

Vani Prakashan is also connected with major library systems of India, United States of America, United Kingdom and Middle East. Vani Prakashan's list includes 32 Sahitya Akademi awarded books and authors, 9 Nobel laureates translated into Hindi and 24 other major awarded writers and books. The organisation is honored at the National Library, Sweden, Indo-Russian Literary Club and Russian Center of Art Culture and by the Polish Government for promoting Indo-Swedish, Russian and Polish literary exchange, respectively. Vani Prakashan has also won the prestigious Distinguished Publisher Award instituted by The Federation of Indian Publishers in 2008. On its 51st anniversary, it laid the foundation for its not-for-profit arm Vani Foundation. The Foundation works in the field of translation and instituted India's prestigious Vani Foundation Distinguished Translator Award with Jaipur BookMark.

The publishing house has recently won the National Award 'Swarn Kamal'-2016 for Best Book on Cinema by the Hon. President (former) of India Dr. Pranab Mukherjee and is the first publishing house in India to be awarded the Excellence Award by the Oxford Business College, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. The Hindi translation of French graphic novel 'Persepolis' by Marjane Satrapi has won the Best Printed Book of the Year Award by the Publishing Next in 2022.