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Namrata Tripathi has been promoted to president and publisher of Penguin Young Readers imprint Kokila, effective immediately.
Previously, Tripathi was Kokila's senior vice-president and publisher. She has been with PYR for 10 years and founded Kokila five years ago. The imprint publishes socially conscious titles for children and young adults from creators with diverse backgrounds. Under Tripathi's leadership, Kokila has published bestsellers, won American Library Association and other awards, and doubled the size of its staff.
Jen Loja, president of PYR, wrote that Tripathi and the Kokila team have "brought new creators into the publishing world, built new models for our publishing culture, and set a new standard of fantastic selling titles that have changed the way we consider comps for diverse titles. This has ultimately broadened the scope of what we can and will publish in the children's book market as a whole."
Some of the imprint's major titles include Hair Love, written by Matthew A. Cherry and illustrated by Vashti Harrison; Born on the Water, written by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renée Watson and illustrated by Nikkolas Smith; Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi; and Payal Mehta's Revenge Romance Plot by Preeti Chhibber.