Alpana Sajip joins Picador from Viking

Alpana Sajip is joining Picador as senior commissioning editor, non-fiction from Viking. 

In her new role, Sajip will report directly to Picador publisher Mary Mount. During her three and a half years at Viking Sajip has acquired books including A Woman Like Me by Diane Abbott, Hein de Haas’s How Migration Really Works, Krithika Varagur’s The Singh Princesses and Kyla Wazana Tompkins’ Acquired Tastes. 

Speaking about her appointment, Sajip said: “It’s been a wonderful few years working at Viking, and I have learned so much from my Penguin colleagues, especially Daniel Crewe, who has been a generous mentor. Though it’s difficult to leave the team and my brilliant authors, I’m so excited for this new adventure at Picador, a list I have long admired for its commitment to literary excellence and pushing boundaries. I can’t wait to build the non-fiction list and will be looking for the very best writers and stories in history, art, politics, current affairs and narrative non-fiction.”

Picador publisher Mary Mount added: “Our team of non-fiction editors and publishers at Picador is second to none. Alpana is a brilliantly incisive and imaginative editor and publisher and we are thrilled that she will be joining the team and will help shape Picador’s non-fiction acquiring and publishing in the years ahead. We are lucky to have her.”

Sajip will join the Picador editorial team on 5th August.