The Peter Owen 60th Anniversary Page
This page is dedicated to the Peter Owen 60th Anniversary. A history of the company, started in July 1951, can be found here and below are a few links to some of the coverage of Peter Owen Publishers, which all appeared in 2011.
Another Magazine interviews Peter Owen on Salvador Dali
Foyles/Mike Dempsey promotion/blog on Peter Owen's legendary designer, Keith Cunningham
Sunday Times Magazine – interview with Peter Owen
Foyles Charing Cross Road Promotion
Bookseller interview with Peter Owen
Telegraph interview – Peter Owen and Anais Nin
Literary Saloon – Peter Owen Profile
We have also recently produced a limited edition of anniversary postcards (see below) which are available free of charge, and a full complimentary set is sent with every book ordered direct from our site – just contact the Sales Dept to find out more on this and how to get as much as 50% off Peter Owen titles.
And finally, here's some recent testimonials. . .
‘Peter Owen has celebrated 60 years of running his publishing house, which has become a byword for a sense of literary adventure and experimentation . . . Owen has published a staggering array of writers outside the mainstream . . . It cannot simply be good luck that leads one man to publish such an embarrassingly long list of riches.’ – John Self, Guardian
‘Peter Owen’s distinguished catalogue of authors contains no fewer than 10 Nobel Prize winners and features celebrated authors who were making waves in their own countries and who, thanks to Owen, came to sprinkle the modern classics lists in Britain.’ – Sunday Times
‘For six decades the company has been resolutely literary, publishing 10 Nobel laureates, with other giants in its backlist including Lawrence Durrell, Gertrude Stein, Mervyn Peake, Edith Sitwell and Paul and Jane Bowles.’ – Bookseller
‘Peter Owen has something to celebrate: midsummer marked the 60th birthday of his radical publishing house, which has remained triumphantly and fiercely independent in a business that often seems to have bent its neck beneath the corporate yoke.’ – Glasgow Herald
‘There is no publisher like Peter Owen for his originality, taste, discrimination and, above all, courage. He has remained proudly independent. I admire him so much.’ – Doris Lessing
‘He has been committed to literature and to the reading public over the years and his publishing house has made a great contribution, particularly in broadening our literary horizons.’ – Fay Weldon
