{"id":3,"name":"Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri","url":"","description":"Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri is Executive Editor with Penguin Random House India. Either an \u2018accidental\u2019 editor who strayed into publishing from a career in finance and accounts or an \u2018accidental\u2019 finance person who found his calling in publishing. After launching a film magazine of his own called Lights Camera Action he has worked in Penguin and HarperCollins Publishers India before moving back to Penguin India. At HCI, he helped launch what came to be regarded as the go-to cinema, music and culture list in Indian publishing, almost exclusively publishing first-time authors who have gone on to become the most recognized names in cinema writing in the country. Books commissioned and edited by him have won the National Award for Best Book on Cinema twice and the inaugural MAMI (Mumbai Academy of Moving Images) Award for Best Writing on Cinema. He also initiated a joint cinema imprint with MAMI, the first of its kind in Indian publishing. He also commissioned and edited some of India\u2019s leading authors like Gulzar, Manu Joseph, Arun Shourie, Kiran Nagarkar and others. He also worked extensively on the translation and poetry list in the organization. In 2017, he was named Editor of the Year by the apex publishing body, Publishing Next.\r\n\r\nShantanu has written for Anupama Chopra\u2019s online magazine Film Companion. And is a consultant and features editor for the newly launched film website Cinemaazi.com. He is also a published author, with two books to his credit: Whims \u2013 A Book of Poems (published by Writers Workshop) and Icons from Bollywood (published by Penguin\/Puffin).","link":"https:\/\/marketmybook.in\/?author=3","slug":"guestuser","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cfe2e92b84ce048741ef937a9e2332bac63a198b4a7cadb8b17741abf530572?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cfe2e92b84ce048741ef937a9e2332bac63a198b4a7cadb8b17741abf530572?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5cfe2e92b84ce048741ef937a9e2332bac63a198b4a7cadb8b17741abf530572?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketmybook.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marketmybook.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}