#PeterOwen Our founder Peter Owen will receive his MBE today for services to literature. His daughter and editor Antonia Owen will be among those accompanying him to Buckingham Palace. Many congratulations to Peter who founded the company in 1951. For the past 63 years his staunchly independent firm has produced some of the most groundbreaking literature of any British publisher. With ten Nobel Prize winners and a backlist that includes some of the most talented writers from all over the world, Peter Owens challenge to the insular nature of Britains reading habits put the company at the cutting edge of publishing throughout the second half of the 20th century, a tradition that continues in the 21st. amazon.co.uk/dp/0720611261/ref=nosim?tag=peteowenpubl-21 To celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2001, Peter selected a few of our most important authors - many of whom have since gone on to become household names - as well as some newer writers for the highly collectible anthology Everything Is Nice. In his introduction Peter proclaims that it is every publishers ideal to introduce talented new writers, and we intend to go on doing this. The anthology inlcudes items by Hermann Hesse, Colette, Paul Bowles, Cesare Pavese, Shusaku Endo, Anna Kavan, Isabelle Eberhardt and Jeremy Reed. Illustrations are by Salvador Dalí, Jean Cocteau, John Lennon, Marc Chagall and others.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:26:52 +0000
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