Oneworld Publications

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Oneworld Publications
Founded1986; 38 years ago (1986)
FoundersNovin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey
Country of origin
HarperCollins India (India)
Penguin Random House (Singapore)
Simon & Schuster (U.S.)[1]
Publication typesBooks
No. of employees23[2]
Official websiteoneworld-publications.com

Oneworld Publications is a British independent

publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market.[3] Based in London
, it later added a literary fiction list (in 2009) and both a children's list (Rock the Boat, 2015) and an upmarket crime list (Point Blank, 2016), and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime fiction and suspense, and children's titles.

History

Oneworld Publications was founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey, who had met as students in the 1970s and subsequently married;[2][4] the company's name reflects their international approach to publishing with global values, initially producing non-fiction "with a focus on bold, intelligent non-fiction across the humanities".[5][6]

In 2009, Oneworld launched a literary fiction list to focus on publishing inspiring, intelligent and thought-provoking novels from around the world. The list has received a string of prizes and award nominations, among them winning the prestigious

The Sellout by Paul Beatty, who became the first American winner of the prize.[7][8][9][10] In 2023, Paul Lynch became the third Oneworld author to win the Booker Prize with his novel Prophet Song.[11] In 2019, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones won the Women's Prize for Fiction,[12] and in 2022 Tess Gunty's The Rabbit Hutch won the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize.[13]

Further awards include the longlisting of A Cupboard Full of Coats by

International DUBLIN Literary Award. On the crime side, Lola by Melissa Scrivner Love won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey New Blood Dagger in 2018 and in 2019, Syd Moore was shortlisted for the CWA Short Story Dagger with her story "Death Becomes Her", from the short-story collection The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas. Also in 2019, Will Dean's Red Snow, the second novel in his Tuva Moodyson Mystery series, won the Capital Crime/Amazon Publishing Readers' Independent Voice Award.[16]

On the translated fiction front, The Meursault Investigation — a multi-award winner in France — was longlisted for the FT Emerging Voices Award and was also shortlisted for the

Man Booker International Prize, as was Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi in 2018 (translated by Jonathan Wright and winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction), which went on to win the Golden Tentacle best debut novel award at the Kitschies given to the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic,[17] while Lisa Hayden's translation of Zuleikha by Guzel Yakhina was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
in 2019.

On the non-fiction side, Oneworld titles have received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations. In 2013, The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll won the

FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year for The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford and Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter – and the prize was won by The Rise of the Robots. In 2018, The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree was shortlisted for the same award, and Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2018. In 2023, Show Me the Bodies by Peter Apps won the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.[18]

Originally set up in Oxford,[19] Oneworld bought its first permanent office in Bloomsbury, London, in 2012.

As of 2023, Oneworld publishes more than 100 titles a year,

Jonathan Ball in South Africa, and by a variety of regional distributors in Latin America and other territories.[1]

Imprints

In 2015, Oneworld launched "Rock the Boat", a list of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults 0–19,[20][21] and in 2016 launched a literary crime list, "Point Blank".[22][23] In 2017, Oneworld set up Oneworld Academic. In 2021, Oneworld launched an upmarket bookclub fiction list, "Magpie".

Awards

In 2016, Oneworld won the Independent Publisher of the Year Award at the

British Book Industry Awards.[24]

In March 2016, Oneworld also won the Ruth Killick Publicity Trade Publisher of the Year Award at the 2016

IPG Independent Publishing Awards.[25]

Oneworld received the Alison Morrison Diversity Award at the 2017 IPG Independent Publishing Awards.[26]

In May 2017, Juliet Mabey, publisher and co-founder of Oneworld, won the Editor of the Year Award at the British Book Industry Awards.[27]

In 2023, Oneworld once again won the Independent Publisher of the Year Award at the British Book Awards.[28] .

Notes

  1. ^ a b "International Sales & Distributors". Oneworld. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  2. ^ a b Alison Flood, "Oneworld: the tiny publisher behind the last two Man Booker winners", The Guardian, 15 November 2016.
  3. ^ a b "About". Oneworld. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ^ Robert Dex, "Meet the husband-and-wife publishing team who backed Booker Prize winner Marlon James", Evening Standard, 14 October 2015.
  5. ^ Juliet Mabey, "Oneworld, One Household: A Husband and Wife and a Life in Publishing", Publishing Perspectives, 8 April 2011.
  6. ^ "Oneworld Publications", Paper Neverland, 1 December 2015.
  7. ^ Alison Flood and Mark Brown, "Man Booker shortlist 2016: tiny Scottish imprint sees off publishing giants", The Guardian, 13 September 2016.
  8. ^ "Sellout Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize". The Man Booker Prize.
  9. ^ Alexandra Alter, "Paul Beatty Wins Man Booker Prize With ‘The Sellout’", The New York Times, 25 October 2016.
  10. ^ Tim Masters, "Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty becomes first US winner for The Sellout", BBC News, 26 October 2016.
  11. ^ "The Booker Prize 2023 | The Booker Prizes". thebookerprizes.com. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  12. ^ Alison Flood, "Women's prize for fiction goes to 'utterly moving' Tayari Jones novel", The Guardian, 5 June 2019.
  13. ^ Zodgekar, Yash; Niva Yadav (25 August 2022). "Tess Gunty's 'fiercely original' The Rabbit Hutch wins inaugural Waterstones debut fiction prize". The Guardian.
  14. ^ Tim Masters, "Booker longlist: Yvvette Edwards on A Cupboard Full of Coats", BBC News, 2 August 2011.
  15. ^ Katie Allen, "Oneworld's Edwards shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize", The Bookseller, 25 April 2012.
  16. ^ Mansfield, Katie (30 September 2019). "Rankin, Braithwaite and Killing Eve win Amazon Publishing Readers' Awards". The Bookseller. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  17. ^ Chandler, Mark (16 April 2019). "Miller's Circe picks up Red Tentacle at Kitschies". The Bookseller. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  18. ^ Schaub, Michael (15 May 2023). "Finalists for the Orwell Prizes Are Announced". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  19. ^ Charlotte Williams, "Oneworld Publications expands into London", The Bookseller, 20 January 2011.
  20. ^ Lisa Campbell, "Oneworld moves into YA market with Rock the Boat", The Bookseller, 8 October 2014.
  21. ^ "About", Rock the Boat.
  22. ^ Natasha Onwuemezi, "Oneworld creates new crime imprint Point Blank", The Bookseller, 8 December 2015.
  23. ^ "Point Blank" at Oneworld.
  24. ^ John Dugdale, "The British Book Industry awards: all must have prizes", The Guardian, 12 May 2016.
  25. ^ "The 2016 Awards". Independent Publishers Guild. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  26. ^ "The 2017 IPG Independent Publishing Awards: winners" Archived 3 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Independent Publishers Guild (IPG).
  27. ^ The British Book Industry Awards 2017. The Bookseller
  28. ^ "The British Book Awards | Independent Publisher of the Year", The Bookseller, 15 May 2023.

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