Peter Owen Publishers
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Founded | 1951 |
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Founder | Peter Owen |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | London |
Distribution |
Combined Book Services (UK)
NewSouth Books (Australia) Independent Publishers Group (US) [1] |
Publication types | Books |
Official website |
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Peter Owen Publishers was founded in 1951 as a family-run independent publisher based in London , England . [2] The company was acquired by Pushkin Press in 2022.
History
The company was founded in 1951 by Peter Owen , who had previously worked for Stanley Unwin at The Bodley Head . [2] Owen's first editor was Muriel Spark , who would later write a novel called A Far Cry From Kensington drawing on her experiences working there. [3]
Their published authors include Paul Bowles and Jane Bowles , the Japanese Catholic author Shusaku Endo , the Spanish writers Julio Llamazares , [4] José Ovejero , Cristina Fernández Cubas , Antonio Soler and Salvador Dalí , [5] as well as André Gide , Jean Cocteau , Colette , Anna Kavan , Anaïs Nin , [6] Natsume Sōseki , Yukio Mishima , Gertrude Stein , Hermann Hesse , [2] Karoline Leach , the revisionist biographer of Lewis Carroll , Hans Henny Jahnn , Tarjei Vesaas and Miranda Miller . The press has published seven Nobel Prize winners. Although best known for fiction, especially in translation, the company also publishes plenty of non-fiction.
In 1991, Owen compiled an anthology to commemorate forty years of publishing, The Peter Owen Anthology: Forty Years of Independent Publishing. Remaining independent since its founding, his press continues to publish. [7] The company records are held in Special Collections at the University of Delaware .
References
- ↑ "Sales" . Peter Owen Publishers . Retrieved 26 December 2017 .
- 1 2 3 John Self, "Peter Owen: Sixty years of innovation" , Books Blog, The Guardian , 4 July 2011.
- ↑ Emily Hill, "Novel Approach: Peter Owen" , Dazed , February 2011.
- ↑ "Wolf Moon by Julio Llamazares, Peter Owen Publishers, 2017" .
- ↑ Julie Cirelli, "Peter Owen on Salvador Dalí" , AnOther, 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Stephen Fowler, "Blazing the trail: an interview with Peter Owen" , 3:AM Magazine, 24 November 2009.
- ↑ Guide to the Peter Owen publishing records , Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Peter Owen publishing records , Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
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