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- Peter Owen OBE (24 February 1927 – 31 May 2016) was a British publisher, the founder of Peter Owen Publishers.
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Peter Owen OBE (24 February 1927 – 31 May 2016) was a British publisher, the founder of Peter Owen Publishers. [1][2][3] Biography. He was born Peter Offenstadt in Nuremberg in 1927, with rickets, the only child of a German Jewish couple. [2][3] His mother was Winifred Offenstadt. [2]
May 31, 2016 · Peter Owen, who has died aged 89, founded his own publishing house in 1951 and became a champion of the obscure, the neglected, the modern, the foreign, the difficult and the downright...
Oct 11, 2011 · In 1951, he founded Peter Owen Publishers with £900 and a typewriter. He started as he meant to carry on, writers on the wild side, like Henry Miller, Ezra Pound and a then unknown Russian writer...
Jun 7, 2016 · He was a pioneer of quality world literature in translation, counter-cultural writing and specialist non-fiction. He went on to publish a host of brilliant writers, including...
May 31, 2016 · Peter Owen, founder of the publisher Peter Owen, has died at the age of 89. Owen died peacefully surrounded by friends and family yesterday morning (31st May 2016) at the Whittington...
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.
In this wry, candid and sometimes poignant memoir, Peter Owen recalls his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany and migration to England where he survived the London Blitz, a teenage dalliance with aspiring actress Fenella Fielding, and working with a motley variety of book publishers.
- Peter Owen, James Nye
