Rights & translations · Chennai, India
Feminist books from Tamil, ready for every language.
Her Stories is a not-for-profit feminist publisher. We license translation and publication rights to fiction, memoir, feminist history and children's books written in Tamil.
New on the list
From the 2026 rights catalogue
Whistle
Yevalum Saralum Innum Sila Pengalum
Sooli
Iruthi Mutham
Gengamma
Oru Katrai Mayir
Veyyil Uganthal
Vambamanal
Working with us
Simple licensing for publishers, agents and translators
We are a small, mission-led press. Our aim is to carry women's writing from Tamil Nadu to readers in other languages, and we keep the process straightforward.
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Browse the rights list or download a catalogue. Every title on it is available for all languages unless noted.
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We send machine-translated samples on request, and English sample chapters exist for selected titles.
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Our books have won Tamil Nadu Government grants for translation into Bengali, Malayalam and Sinhala. We help partners apply.
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We sign MoUs at the Chennai International Book Fair and by email year-round.
Rights catalogues
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Compressed PDFs with covers, synopses, author notes and specifications for every title.
Rights Catalogue 2026
Titles released in 2025, including the prize-winners of the first Pennezhuthu Poti competition.
20 titles · PDF 3.9 MB Download 2025Rights Catalogue 2025
Titles released in 2024: memoir, myth-busting science, anthologies and our children's imprint, Her Stories Wings.
19 titles · PDF 4.3 MB Download 2024Rights Catalogue 2024
Our earlier list: feminist history, the first women of South India, contemporary essays and fiction.
21 titles · PDF 3.7 MB DownloadRecognition
A publisher with a record
Tamil Nadu Government Best Women's Literature Publisher in 2023 and 2024. Laadli Media awards for gender sensitisation. Translation grants from Institut Français India, NORLA and the Tamil Nadu Government.
Awards and grantsTranslation grants
Funding is often available
The Tamil Nadu Government funds the translation of Tamil books into other languages through the Chennai International Book Fair. We explain how it works and support applications.
How the grants work