Calder Publishing
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Parent company | Alma Classics |
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Founded | 1949 |
Founder | John Calder |
Defunct | 2007 |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | Richmond, London |
Distribution | Macmillan Distribution[1] |
Publication types | Books |
Official website | https://almabooks.com/ |
Calder Publications is a publisher of books. Since 1949, the company has published many books on all the arts, particularly subjects such as opera and painting, the theatre and critical and philosophical theory. Calder's authors have achieved nineteen Nobel Literature Prizes and three for Peace.[citation needed]
History
John Calder started his publishing house in 1949 when manuscripts were plentiful and many books that were in demand were out of print – in the immediate post-war years paper was scarce and severely rationed.
During the 1950s he built up a list of translated classics, which included the works of
By the late 1950s, Calder was publishing a group of new writers who would change the face of twentieth-century literature.[
From his experience of authors' tours, John Calder saw that readers much enjoyed hearing authors air their ideas in public – often in heated debate.[
Controversy
Following their visit to
Ownership
In 1963 the company changed its name to Calder and Boyars to accommodate a new partner (Marion Boyars, who subsequently founded Marion Boyars Publishers),[6] but the company went back to its original name when the partnership was dissolved in 1975.
In 2007, Calder Publications was acquired by Oneworld Classics, a joint venture between Alma Books and Oneworld Publications. In 2012, Alma Books acquired full ownership of Calder and Oneworld Classics, renaming the latter Alma Classics.[7]
Book series
- Calderbooks[8]
- English National Opera Guides (in association with English National Opera and the Royal Opera) (joint publisher: Riverrun Press, New York)[9]
- European Classics (also known as: Translations of European Classics)[10]
- German Expressionism
- German Writing in Translation
- Illustrated Calderbooks[11]
- Jupiter Books[12]
- New Writers
- Open Forum[13]
- Opera Library: The History of Opera Series[14]
- Profile Books (also known as Everygreen Profile Books) (joint publisher: Grove Press, New York)[15]
- Signature[16]
References
- ^ "Macmillan Distribution - Publishers". Retrieved 25 December 2017.
- ^ a b Lawless, Jill. "John Calder, British publisher and champion of avant-garde, dies at 91". Washington Post. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Nobel Prize to Samuel Beckett", The Guardian, 13 November 1969, p. 8.
- ^ Sayers, Stuart (11 February 1984), "Not a man for allowing remainders", The Age, p. 169.
- ^ a b Hodgkinson, Will (16 October 2004). "Culture quake: Last Exit to Brooklyn". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Owen, Peter (2 February 1999). "Marion Boyars obituary: Pioneer publisher of the avant-garde". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ Williams, Charlotte (2 April 2012), "Alma gets classical with 300-strong list", The Bookseller.
- ^ Calderbooks (John Calder (Publishers) Ltd.; Calder & Boyars; Calderbooks) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- ^ se:English National Opera Guides, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ European Classics, seriesofseries.com. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ Illustrated Calderbooks (John Calder (Publishers) Ltd.) - Book Series List, publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ Jupiter Books, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ Open Forum, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ Opera Library, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ Profile Books, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ Signature Series, worldcat.org. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
External links
- Calder Publications - archived version of website as it was on 23 May 2002.
- Alma Classics
- Calder & Boyars mss., 1939-1980