Readomania is delighted to announce the acquisition of the worldwide publishing rights to Tino de Sa's work of Children's Fiction, The Curious Case of the Nandikote Nawab. The book will be published under the children's imprint, Reado Junior.
Tino de Sa grew up a thousand miles away from his ancestral island-village of Divar, Goa, in the dusty little central Indian railway town of Bhusaval, where his father ran a picture house and, off and on, was Mayor. He took degrees at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and then, as a Mason Fellow, at Harvard in the USA.
He was selected to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1980. His varied assignments included a stint with the United Nations and culminated in his being one of the longest-serving Chief Secretaries of Madhya Pradesh.
He has twice won the first prize in the Times of India ‘Write India’ national short story competition—in 2017 and again in 2019. Some of his poems have been included in anthologies of the Poetry Society of India and Delhi Poetree. He is the author of two collections of short stories, The Disrobing of Draupadi and Other Stories and One for Sorrow, Two for Joy. This is his first novel for young adults.
Tino de Sa is the nom de plume of Anthony de Sa.
de Sa says,' In writing this book, I re-lived my childhood imaginings: a world peopled with mysterious characters out of Enid Blyton and replete with fun-filled adventures out of Richmal Crompton—I confabulated with the Secret Seven, I cycled with the Famous Five, I crept around with the Five Find-Outers, and adventured with William and his Outlaws. Banpuri, the setting for this story, is a thin disguise for Bhusaval, the town in which I was born and brought up; the circle of family, friends, teachers, and neighbours made the town what it was, and are all therefore instrumental in the creation of this book.'
The book is expected to hit the stores in October - November 2021.
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