Rights & translations · Chennai, India
Tamil feminist literature, ready for readers everywhere.
Great stories deserve to travel. Her Stories, a not-for-profit feminist publisher, licenses translation and publication rights to Tamil fiction, memoir, feminist history and children’s books.
Spotlight
Titles we are championing this season
Whistle
Yevalum Saralum Innum Sila Pengalum
Gengamma
Oru Katrai Mayir
Nile Nathiyora Nangaiyar Ulagam
Manangalin Naduve
Setru Naikutty
Parakkum Thattu
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We are a small, mission-led press with a single purpose: to carry women’s writing from Tamil Nadu to readers in every language.
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Browse the rights list or download the catalogue. All titles are available in every language unless noted.
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Ask for a machine-translated sample. English sample chapters are available for selected titles.
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Our books have won Tamil Nadu Government translation grants for Bengali, Malayalam and Sinhala. We’ll help you apply.
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Grants and translations
Translation and publishing support
Books translated into Tamil with grant support
ஓர் உரையாடல்
A Conversation
Annie Ernaux and Rose-Marie Lagrave · from French
Published 2024 · Institut Français
உங்களுக்கு நான் உதவுகிறேன்
Let Me Help You
Svein Størksen · from Norwegian
Published 2025 · NORLA
குட்டி இளவரசி
Memories of the Rose
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry · from French
Published 2026 · Institut Français
From Tamil to the world
Our books are travelling.
Her Stories titles have received Tamil Nadu Government grants through the Chennai International Book Fair for translation into Malayalam, Bengali, Sinhala and many more Indian and international languages, with several translations already published.
Coming to Tamil
- Living with Men, Manon Garcia · French · December 2026
- Sky, Svein Størksen · Norwegian · December 2026
- Animal Beauty, Svein Størksen · Norwegian · December 2026
- Hymn to Life, Gisèle Pelicot · French · 2027
- Sad Tiger, Neige Sinno · French · 2027
- A Strange Woman, Leyla Erbil · Turkish · 2027
- The Women of Tijucopapo, Marilene Felinto · Portuguese · 2027
Rights catalogues
Download the full catalogues
Covers, synopses, author notes and specifications for every title, ready to share with your editorial team.
Rights Catalogue 2026: complete edition
All 60 titles from the 2024, 2025 and 2026 lists in one redesigned catalogue, with spotlight titles, prize-winners, grants and a linked contents page.
60 titles · PDF 5.7 MB Download 2026Rights & Grants Brochure
Our spotlight titles, translations into Tamil, grant partners and the publishers we work with, on two pages.
2 pages · PDF 1.0 MB DownloadEarlier catalogues, as printed
Rights Catalogue 2026
Titles released in 2025, including the prize-winners of the first Pennezhuthu Potti 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
Recognised for our work
Tamil Nadu Government’s Best Women’s Literature Publisher for three consecutive years, 2023–2025. Laadli Media awards for gender sensitisation. Translation support from Institut Français, NORLA, TEDA and the Fundação Biblioteca Nacional.
Awards and grantsTranslation grants
Translation funding is within reach
Through the Chennai International Book Fair, the Government of Tamil Nadu funds the translation of Tamil books into other languages. We explain how the scheme works and support every application.
How the grants work