Peter Owen Publishers

Peter Owen Publishers
Founded 1951
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 www.peterowen.com

Peter Owen Publishers is a family-run London-based independent publisher based in London, England. It was founded in 1951.[2]

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 and Salvador Dalí,[5] as well as André Gide, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Anna Kavan, Anaïs Nin,[6] Natsume Sōseki, Yukio Mishima, Hermann Hesse,[2] Karoline Leach, the revisionist biographer of Lewis Carroll, Hans Henny Jahnn, Tarjei Vesaas and Miranda Miller. Although best known for fiction (especially in translation), the company also publishes plenty of non-fiction.

References

  1. ↑ "Sales". Peter Owen Publishers. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  2. 1 2 3 John Self, "Peter Owen: Sixty years of innovation", Books Blog, The Guardian, 4 July 2011.
  3. ↑ Emily Hill, "Novel Approach: Peter Owen", Dazed, February 2011.
  4. ↑ "www.spanishliterarytranslation.com".
  5. ↑ Julie Cirelli, "Peter Owen on Salvador Dalí", AnOther, 24 June 2011.
  6. ↑ Stephen Fowler, "Blazing the trail: an interview with Peter Owen", 3:AM Magazine, 24 November 2009.


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