Arcadia Books Newsflash
Arcadia Books learned on 1 February that its funding from Arts Council England has been restored for the next three years, with a slight increase for inflation.
We are enormously grateful to the following people who signed our appeal letter and who were helpful in other ways, too. Special thanks to Doris Lessing, for being the first person to sign our letter, and to Joan Smith and Lucy Popescu for spearheading our campaign.
Gary Pulsifer, Daniela de Groote, Angeline Rothermundt, Marina Spyridaki, staff members, and Sonny Leong, Donald Greig, Roger Katz, Vivienne Menkes-Ivry, Daniel Hahn, Arcadia Board.
Lucy Abrahams, associate literary scout, Louise Allen-Jones
Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007, Luanda
Gillon Aitken, chair, Aitken, Alexander Associates
Anasudhin Ajeir, managing editor, Asian Lite magazine
Tariq Ali
Ross W. Almo, CHA, Killington, Vermont
Karin Altenberg, cultural affairs officer, Embassy of Sweden
Ella Andrews, Darley Anderson Agency
Carole Angier, FRSL
Lisa Appignanesi, President, English PEN
Vivian Archer, Newham Bookshop
Michael Arditti, novelist and critic, Independent, The Times, Daily Mail
Jason Arthur, publishing director, William Heinemann
Rachel Aspden, books editor, New Statesman
Neil Astley, editor, Bloodaxe Books
Elizabeth Atkins, director, A.C.E.R. Agencia Literaria, Madrid
Ruth Atkins, fiction buyer, Borders
Pete Ayrton, publisher, Serpent's Tail
Joan Bakewell
Paul Bailey, Booker short-listed novelist, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, E.M. Forster Award, ACE award
Ron Bailey, DPhil
Mairy Bairaktari, Centre National du Livre grec, Athens
Lisa India Baker, rights manager, Faber & Faber
Robert Baldock, MD, Yale University Press
Mitzi Bales, Member of Honour, NUJ
Leena Balme, Teos publishers, Helsinki
Saumya Balsari, author of The Cambridge Curry Club
Countess Banffy-Jelen, Weidenfeld Translation Prize, Tangier
Emma Barnes, FRSA, MD, Snowbooks Ltd
Julian Barnes
Heather Barrett, senior editor, John Murray Publishers
Isabel Barros, journalist, Santiago de Chile
Don Bartlett, translator
Richard Bates, MD, Discript Ltd, Way2Go publishing
Susanne Bauknecht, rights manager, Diogenes, Zurich
Simon Beavington-Penney PhD
Anne Beech, MD, Pluto Press
John Berger, Booker Prize, France
Alfio Bernabei, author and journalist, L’Unita
Adam Bethlehem
Professor Pietro Biancardi, PhD, editor, Il Saggiatore, Milano
Kelvin J. Birk
Michael Billington, drama critic, The Guardian
Rachel Billington, author and VP, English PEN
Paul Binding, author and critic, The Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement
Ketil Bjornstad, novelist and musician, Oslo
Terence Blacker, Independent
Carole Blake, director, Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency Ltd
Simon Blow, author and critic
Richard Bohane, Turnaround Publisher Services
Mirko Bonné, author and translator, Hamburg
Christina Borg, literary assistant, The Sunday Times
Anne Born, translator; co-winner, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (with Per Petterson)
Dan E. Bostian, Seoul
Nic Bottomley, general manager, Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, Bath
Alex Bowler, Random House
Celia Brayfield
Yvonne Brewster, OBE, FRSA
Viscountess Bridgeman, FRSA
Raymond Briggs, DFA, FCSD, FRSL
Soledad Brinck, Banco Santander, Santiago de Chile
Joanna Briscoe
Sarah Broadhurst, previewer for The Bookseller
Hugh Brody, Canada Reseach chair, University College of the Fraser Valley
Dea Brovig
Alan Brownjohn, FRSL, Writers' Guild Books Committee Award
Catherine Bruzzone, publisher and MD, b small publishing ltd
Charles Buchan, The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd
Alexandra Büchler, MD, Literature Across Frontiers
John Buckingham, DPhil, FRSC
Alan Bullion, Lib Dem PPC for Sevenoaks
Simon Burt, novelist and Readers and Writers programme manager, English PEN
Peter Burton, author, editor, Daily Express critic
Dr Margaret Busby, OBE, author, critic and co-founder, Allison & Busby publishers
Professor Peter Bush, translator, Madrid
Luke Buxton
John Calder, publisher, Calder Publications
Liz Calder, publisher, Bloomsbury Publishing
Rachel Calder, MD, Sayle Literary Agency
Euan Cameron, editor and translator
Paula Canal, rights manager, Anagrama, Barcelona
Julia Camoys Stonor, author
Lady Colin Campbell
Charlie Campbell, Ed Victor Ltd
James Campbell, author and critic, Times Literary Supplement
Tracy Carns, publisher, The Rookery Press, New York
Rebecca Carter, editor at large, Random House
Marine Casalis, Paris
Fernando Casasempere, sculptor
Sarah Castleton, editor, Atlantic Books
Ana Castro, direccao, sector internacional, Geral do Livro e das Bibliotecas/Portugal, Lisbon
Sophie Catris, rights manager, Kastaniotis publishers, Athens
Corinne Chabert, A.M.Heath and Company literary agents
Nicola Chalton, director, Basement Press
Robert Chandler, translator
Gary Chapman, publisher
Tracy Chevalier, author of The Girl with the Pearl Earring; chair, The Society of Authors
Sofia Cheviakoff, architect, Cartwright Pickard Architects
David Chipp, former editor-in-chief, Press Association
Lars Saabye Christensen, Nordic Prize for Literature, Oslo
Jens Christiansen, editorial director, Borgen Publishers, Copenhagen
Rupert Christiansen, FRSL
Stuart Christie, publisher, Christie Books/Read ‘n’ Noir
Caryl Churchill
Geraldine Cooke, director, Marsh Agency
Paul Clarke, Waterstone's
Roger Clarke, Independent critic
Beth Coates, senior editor, Vintage Books
Laurence Colchester, publisher, Bitter Lemon Press
Peter Cole, poet, translator and editor, Ibis Editions, Jerusalem
Isabel Colegate
Therese Collins
Mark Collins PhD
Rose Collis, author
Clare Colvin, novelist, Independent critic and former literary editor, Sunday Express
David Connolly, translator, Athens
Kees de Bakker, publisher, Uitgeverij Conserve, Amsterdam
Eli Cook, lecturer in Scandinavian Studies, University of East Anglia
Donna Coonan, commissioning editor, Virago Modern Classics
Kate Cooper
Monique Corless, Random House
Bob Cornwall, critic, Tangled Web
Margaret Jull Costa, translator, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (translator of Javier Marias), Weidenfeld Translation Prize
Amanda Craig, author and critic
Robert Craig, partner, Finers Stephens Innocent
Sir Bernard Crick, professor emertus, Birbeck College; honorary fellow, UCL; founder and chief judge, George Orwell Prize
Paul Crooks, author of Ancestors
Margaret Crosland, author and translator
Eleni Cubitt, Hon. Secretary, The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles
Rachel Cugnoni, publishing director, Vintage
Edwina Currie
Anthony Curtis, critic, former literary editor, Financial Times
Sarah Curtis
Teresa Calvelli-Adorno
Sandra Danby, writer and contributor to Diaspora City: The London New Writing Anthology
Maggie Davey, publisher, Jacana Media, Auckland Park, South Africa
Dr Basil Davidson, MC
Merric Davidson, administrator, Galaxy British Book Awards, British Book Industry Awards
Ryan Davies, Turnaround Publisher Services
Deborah Dawkin, translator
Peter Day, former publisher, Allison & Busby
Sean Day-Lewis
Claire de Braekeleer, programme manager, Creative Economy Unit,
British Council
Georgia de Chamberet, MD, Bookblast Writers’ Agency
José Luis de Juan, novelist (ACE translation grant for This Breathing World), Palma
Johhny de Falbe, director, John Sandoe (Books) Ltd
Daniela de Groote, associate publisher, Arcadia Books
Prudence de Villiers, In Other Words Ltd
Dr Sarah Death, editor, Swedish Book Review; committee member, Translators' Association
Caspian Dennis, Abner Stein literary agents
Claire Derouesné, Turnaround Publisher Services
Eddy de Rooij, book buyer UK, B.V. Van Ditmar Boekenimport, Amsterdam
Martina Dervis, director, Imrie & Dervis Literary Agency
Sheena Dewan, publisher, Vision Paperbacks and Fusion Press
Kari Dickson, The Language Laundry
Elise Dillsworth, commissioning editor, Little, Brown Book Group
Jenny Diski, FRSL
Isobel Dixon, poet, and director of Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency
Pedro Donoso, writer and translator, Barcelona
Tasja Dorkofikis, associate publisher, Portobello Books
Susie Dowdall, Daily Mail
Margaret Drabble, CBE
Hugo Dragonetti
Jim Driver, publisher, The Do-Not Press Ltd
Dale S. Druckman, joint MD, Gary Allen Pty Ltd, Brookvale, Australia
Stella Duffy
Linday Duguid, fiction editor, Times Literary Supplement
Sarah Dunant
Patricia Duncker, novelist and professor of contemporary literature, University of Manchester
Kirsty Dunseath, Orion plc
Maureen Duffy, FKC, FRSL, president of honour, British Copyright Council and ALCS; copyright consultant, CLA; RSL Council
Dominick Dunne, novelist, author, special correspondent, Vanity Fair, NY
Ellen Dupont, MD, Toucan Books
Louise Dymoke
Will Eaves, Times Literary Supplement
Nicholas Elam, CMG, administrator of the Caine Prize for African Writing
Stephen Ellcock, Publishers Group (UK)
Santiago Elordi, novelist, Santiago de Chile
Barbara Epler, editor-in-chief & VP, New Directions Publishing, New York
Tessa Estévez Pendás, A.C.E.R Agencia Literaria, Madrid
Gareth Evans, writer, curator, editor of Vertigo magazine
Julian Evans, critic and broadcaster
Simon Evans, Creative Clusters Ltd
Peter Everest, WS Bookwell
Ruth Fainlight, FRSL
Zoe Fairbairns, novelist
U A Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL
Moris Farhi, MBE, novelist
Nina Farhi
Clara Farmer, editorial director, Chatto & Windus
Nelson Fernandez, Visiting Arts
David Fernbach, founding publisher, Gay Men’s Press
Tibor Fischer, FRSL
Dr Ali Fisher, Mapi Mundi Consultancy
Mary Flanagan, novelist and critic
Louise Flesh, visual arts
Martin Fletcher, publisher at large, Headline
Peter Florence, director, Hay Festivals
Anne Fløtaker, editorial director, fiction, JW Cappelens Forlag, Oslo
Hilary Foakes, editorial director, The Good Book Guide
Jack Fogg, 4th Estate editorial
Mario Fortunato, novelist, Rome
Christopher Foyle, chair, Foyles
Catherine Fragou, MD, Iris Literary Agency, Athens
Carlos Franz, Chilean novelist, Madrid
Lady Antonia Fraser, CBE
Baroness Flather
Dan Franklin, publisher, Jonathan Cape
Maureen Freely, novelist and translator
Gillian Freeman, novelist, screenwriter, Civil List award for services to literature
Derek Freeman, arts consultant
Marianne Fritsch, director, Liepman Agency, Zurich
Jonathan Fryer, author, journalist, broadcaster
Helenka Fuglewicz, director, Edwards Fuglewicz Literary Agency
Christina Fuentes La Roche, Hay Festivals
Isabella Floris, Marjacq Scripts Ltd
Patrick Gale
Alessandro Gallenzi, publisher and MD, Alma Books - Oneworld Classics
Joseph Galliano, editor, Gay Times magazine
Jane Gardham, FRSL, Hon D Phil
Brenda Gardner, publisher & MD, Piccadilly Press
Michael Geoghegan, MD, MG European Sales; Publishers Association European Working Party
Adrian George
Christopher Gibb
David Gilbert, former MD Waterstone’s, Currys; former COO, Dixons Stores Group
Harriett Gilbert, Outlook, BBC World Service
Rosemary Goad, editor
Bill Godber, MD, Turnaround Publisher Services
Martyn Goff, CBE, founder of The Booker Prize
Iris Gollner, Wall Street Journal London Bureau
Richard Gollner, director, Radala & Associates Literary Agents
Helen Gordon, associate editor, Granta Magazine
Rebecca Gray, publicity director, Serpent's Tail
Rachel Green, writer, poet
Harriet Griffey, author and journalist
Corinne Gotch, PR and publicity manager, Walker Books
Carol Gould
Michelle Green, author, The Dream at the End of the World, New York
Donald Greig, MD, Bradt Travel Guides
Carla Grissmann, author
Tommi Grover, FRSA, managing director, Multilingual Matters Ltd
James Gurbutt, associate publisher, Harvill Secker
Chris Gutkind, librarian, poet
Katherine Gutkind, designer
Linda Grant, author and critic
Philip Gwyn Jones, publisher, Portobello Books and Granta Books
Robert Gwyn Palmer, Sunday Telegraph
Daniel Hahn, co-winner, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007
Pip Hallén, rights director, Cappelen Damm Agency, Oslo
Maggie Hamand, publisher, The Maia Press
Cordelia Hamilton
Freddy Hamilton
Nathan Hamilton, managing editor, Egg Box Publishing and programme manager, New Writing Partnership
Georgina Hammick, FRSL, Writers Guild of Great Britain Book Committee
Tom Hammick, artist
Priscilla Hannaford, director, Brilliant Publications
Carola Hansson, novelist, Upsala
Caroline Hardman, Marsh Agency
Sue Harris, NUJ national organiser, Magazines, Books and Press & PR
Terry Harvey, director, Martello Bookshop, Rye
Wendy Harvey, director, Martello Bookshop, Rye
Ronald Harwood, CBE, FRSL
Barbara J. Haveland, translator, Copenhagen
David Haynes, library services
Andrew Hayward, sales director, Constable & Robinson Ltd
Tim Heald FRSL
Liz Heron, translator and critic
Andrea Heyde, president, Literarische Agentur Andrea Heyde, Germany
Christie Hickman, books editor, Sunday Express magazine
Louise Higham MBE, Director Arts (Spain), British Council
Christopher Hirst, columnist, Independent
Professor Shere Hite, PhD
Penelope S. Hoare, deputy publishing director, Chatto & Windus
David Hobpool, Times Literary Supplement
Adina Hoffman, writer and editor, Ibis Editions, Jerusalem
Professor Eva Hoffman, FRSL
Anneli Hoier, MD, Leonhardt & Hoier Literary Agency A/S, Copenhagen
Alan Hollingshurst, FRSL, Booker Prize
Andrew Holgate, deputy literary editor, The Sunday Times
Dr Jaja Holisova, Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam
Stewart Home
Mark Hooper, category manager related products, Entertainment UK
John Hopkins, novelist
Amanda Hopkinson, director, British Centre for Literary Translation
Andrew Hosken, author; BBC Today programme
Neal Hosken, publisher, Winged Chariot Press
Ken Howard, director, Landseer Productions Ltd
Martin Hoyle, radio critic, Financial Times and film/book/TV reviewer, FT
Christopher Hudson, author and critic
Rosemarie Hudson, founding publisher, BlackAmber
Jill Hughes, Foreign Rights
Daniela Humajova, head, international department, Centre for Information on Literature; chair, Association of Slovak Translators of Belles-Lettres; translator from German, Bratislava
Bruce Hunter, director, David Higham Associates literary agency
Humfrey Hunter, MD, Hunter Profiles Ltd
Aamer Hussein FRSL, director, MA in National and International Literatures in English, University of London
David Huetter
Siri Hustvedt
Malcolm Imrie, director, Imrie & Dervis Literary Agency
Nazli Imtiaz
Martin Ireland, artist
Ana U. Izove, HSBC Bank USA, Santiago de Chile
Mark Jackson, manager, The Calder Bookshop
Maxim Jakubowski, author, critic; MD, Murder One Bookshop
Lex Jansen, publisher, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam
Maya Jaggi, critic, The Guardian
Rose James
Angela Jarman, director, Arc Publications
Dr Diego Jazanovich
Peter Jay, publisher, Anvil Press Poetry
Lilibeth Jelen Salnikoff, Paris
Elizabeth Jenner, editor, children’s books, A & C Black Publishers
Alan Jessop, managing director, Compass Independent Book Sales
Terese Johansson, legal services, Haringey Council
Hugh Johnson, OBE
Andrew Johnston, MD, Quiller Publishing Ltd
Susanna Johnston, author
Gay Jones, In Other Words Ltd
Lizzie Jones
Nicolette Jones, critic
Ausrine Jonikaite, director, Books from Lithuania, Vilnius
Erica Jong, New York
Philip Joseph, founder, Books Etc
Louisa Joyner, editorial director, Atlantic Books
Ann Jungman, publisher, Barn Owl Books
Dora Karolyi, director, Hungarian Book Foundation, Budapest
Roger Katz, Hatchards Piccadilly
Roz Kaveney, author and critic
Danuta Kean, journalist and publishing commentator
Tony Keats, Bathany Bookshop, Gloucestershire
Stuart Kelly, literary editor, Scotland on Sunday
James Kelman, Booker Prize
Peter Kemp, fiction editor, The Sunday Times
Helena Kennedy QC (Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws QC)
Bruce Kent
Sir Frank Kermode, FBA, FRSL
Gabriele Kern, P.S. Publishers’ Services, Frankfurt
Mark Kessler
Catheryn Kilgarriff, publisher, Marion Boyars Publishers
Francis King, CBE, FRSL
Jan Kjærstad, Nordic Prize for Literature, Oslo
Christina Konig, author and critic, The Times
Corinne Kopec, Killington, Vermont,
Edite Kroll, MD, Edite Kroll Literary Agency, Saco, Maine
Hanif Kureishi
Matthew Lane, editorial assistant, Cengage Learning
Lee Langley, winner, Writers’ Guild Best Novel Award, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Professor Peter Lantos, PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FmedSci
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, DSO, OBE
Sam Leith, books editor, Daily Telegraph
Uli Lenart, assistant manager, Gay's the Word Bookshop
Sonny Leong, honorary president elect, Independent Publishers Guild (representing over 500 independent UK publishers)
Eva Lie-Nielsen, rights manager, Gyldendal Agency, Oslo
Nadia Lawrence, German agent
Penelope Leach, PhD, FBPS
Professor Hermione Lee, CBE, FRSL, FBA
Julia Lee, rights manager, Allen & Unwin Publishers, Sydney
Mark Le Fanu, general secretary, The Society of Authors
Pia Leighton, Chilean writer, New York
Doris Lessing, Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2007
Peter Lewis, Daily Mail critic
Sophie Lewis, Dalkey Archive publishers
Otto B.Lindhardt, publisher, Copenhagen
Lijjnkamp Literary Agents, Amsterdam
Mrk Linz, publisher, University of Cairo Press
Toby Litt
Pedro F. Montes Lira, Immobliaria Cumbres de la Denesa SA, Santiago de Chile
Clementina Liuzzi, acquiring rights manager, Il Saggiatore, Milano
Penelope Lively, CBE, Booker Prize
Jonathan Lloyd, CEO, Curtis Brown Group
Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Polish literature
Ken Loach, BAFTA fellow; Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival
Catherine Lockerbie, director, Edinburgh International Book Festival
Christopher Logue, poet
Joanna Lumley, OBE
Sarah Lutyens, director, Lytyens & Rubinstein literary agency
Andrew Lycett
Brian MacArthur, Daily Telegraph
Professor Helder Macedo, PhD, FKC, professor eemeritus, King’s College
Suzette Macedo, author and translator,
Shena Mackay, FRSL, Booker short-listed novelist
Alex MacSweeney, critic, Times Literary Supplement
Bill McAlister, Soros Foundation
Kim McArthur, president & publisher, McArthur & Company, Toronto
Val McDermid
David McDuff, translator
Ian McEwan, CBE, FRSL, Booker Prize
Richard McKane, poet and translator
Gary McKeone, past literature director, Arts Council England
Polly Mclean, translator
Koukla MacLehose, literary scout for eleven European publishers
Alan Mahar, publishing director, Tindal Street Press
Barry Maitland, crime writer, Sydney
Rachel Manley, Jamaican poet and author, Toronto
Jack Mapanje PhD, poet, linguist, editor, senior lecturer in English, Newcastle University
Dacia Maraini, Premio Strega, Premio Campiello, Rome
Oliver Marre, The Observer
Roderick Martine, author and critic
Ina Martinova, manager, international department, Centre for Information on Literature; translator from English, Bratislava
Kathrina Martinsen, Copenhagen
Ben Mason, Sheil Land Associates, Literary, Theatre & Film Agents
Alice Massey, HarperPress editorial
Allan Massie, FRSL, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, author and critic
Brian Masters, author
Nouritza Matossian
Jane Mays, literary editor, Daily Mail
Vijay Medtia, author, The House of Subadar
Aydin Mehmet Ali, writer and contributor to Diaspora City
Eila Mellin, foreign rights manager, fiction, Otava Group Agency, Helsinki
Pauline Melville
Assuncao Mendonca, direccao, Geral do Livros e das Bibliotecas/Portugal, Lisbon
Vivienne Menkes-Ivry, Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Mérite, Publishing News, Livres Hebdo
Daisy Meyrick, ICM foreign rights
Caroline Michel, MD, PFD
Edward Milford, executive chairman, Earthscan and a former chair of the Independent Publishers Guild
Peter Millar, translator, What the Papers Say Foreign Correspondent of the Year
Sir Jonathan Miller, CBE
Karl Miller, FRSL, former Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature, UCL; former editor, London Review of Books and Listener; former literary editor, Spectator and New Statesman
William Miller, founder and director of The English Agency (Japan) Ltd., Tokyo
Julian Mitchell
Nermin Mollaoglu, Turkey
Professor Maxine Molyneaux, PhD
Christopher Moncrieff, novelist, poet, translator
Cristina Mora, foreign rights director, Grupo Planeta, Madrid
Pilar Moreno de Barreda, assistant director, Creative Industries, Spanish Embassy Commercial Office
Jan Morris, CBE
Laura Morris, MD, Laura Morris Literary Agency
Sir John Mortimer, Kt, CBE, QC, FRSL
Adrian Muller, chair of the judges, Duncan Lawrie CWA International Dagger (for best translated crime novel)
John Murray FRSL, novelist and lecturer, Lancaster University
Marijke Nagtegaal, rights manager, Uitgevers Amstel, Amsterdam
Baroness Neuberger, DBE
Vivienne Nilan, Kathimerini, Athens
Dr Alastair Niven, OBE, principal, Cumberland Lodge; past president, English PEN; former literature director, Arts Council and British Council
Lulu Norman, translator
Bill Norris, MD, Central Books Ltd
John Julius Norwich (Viscount Norwich)
James Nunn, Illustration & Design
Andrew Nurnberg, MD, Andrew Nurnberg Associates
Edna O’Brien
John O'Connell, books editor, Time Out magazine
Sofia Odsberg and colleagues, Nordin Agency, Stockholm
Alice O’Keeffe, arts editor, New Statesman
Efe Okogu, author and contributor , Diaspora City
Joseph Olshan, American novelista, Vermont
Charles Osborne, poet and former literature director, ACE
Ingrid Overwien, NORLA – Norwegian Literature Abroad, Oslo
Isabel Margarita Buzeta Page, publisher, Uqbar Editores, Santiago de Chile
Sally Page, literary scout, Louise Allen-Jones
Stephen Page, CEO & publisher, Faber & Faber
Nikos Panayiotou, former Borders Charing Cross Road bookseller, Cyprus
Kriton, Harriet and Rose Papadopoulos
Christine Paris, arts organiser
Peter Parker, FRSL, vice-chair, RSL Council
Julia Pascal
Anna Paterson, PhD., writer, award-winning translator from Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
Anna Pataki, director, Pataki publishers, Athens
Ruth Pavey, critic
Tessa Payne, Flowers East Art Gallery
Tony Peake, author and MD, Peake Associates literary agency
Catherine Pellegrino
Rowan Pelling
Fionn Petch, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Mexico City
Pamela Petrie, member of English PEN
Tiziano Perez, Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam
Mike Peterson
Isabelle Petit, rights manager, Santiago de Chile
Alan Philps, writer and former foreign editor, Daily Telegraph
Paul Pickering, author and critic
Agata Pieniek, rights manager, WAB Publishers, Warsaw
Gail Pirtis, publisher, Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader’s Quarterly
Erin Pizzey
David Platzer
Hilary Plum, editor, Olive Branch Press/Interlink Publishing
Barbara Plummer, Kokadjo, Maine
Lucy Popescu, FRSA
Chad W. Post, publisher, Open Letters, University of Rochester, New York
Jorge Postigo, director, Creative Industries, Spanish Embassy Commercial Office
Christopher Potter, author and former publishing director, 4th Estate
Jim Potts, OBE
Robert Potts, Times Literary Supplement
Shelley Power, director, Shelley Power Literary Agency, France
Ellen Prescott, New York
Penelope Price
Maggie Pringle, critic and former literary editor, Daily Express
Michael Prodger, literary editor, The Sunday Telegraph
Gary Pulsifer, publisher, Arcadia Books, and former ACE Translation Advisory Group member
Josephine Pullein-Thompson, MBE, past president, English PEN
Jonathan D Rabinowitz, publisher, Turtle Point Press, New York
Ismini Radoulovits, Thessaloniki Book Fair and National Book Centre of Greece, Athens
Michael J Rakusin, joint managing director, Tower Books Pty Ltd
Brookvale, Australia
Jaime Ramirez Garrido, author, Mexico
Frederic Raphael, FRSL, author
Guy Raphael, entertainment and leisure buyer, Borders
Cath Rasbash, A & C Black Publishers
Homa Rastegar
Sally Ratcliffe, Royal Society of Literature
Corin Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, Commandant des Arts et des Lettres
Sunje Redies, editor, Rowolt Verlag, Berlin
Jeremy Reed, poet
Paula Rego, Hon D Lit, Hon DFA, Hon Dr
Gillian Reynolds, MBE, critic and former member, ACE panel on Film, Video and Broadcasting
Keith Richmond, deputy editor, Tribune
Ina Rilke, translator, Amsterdam
David Robinson, books editor, The Scotsman
Nick Robinson, publisher, Constable & Robinson Ltd
Jordi Roca, Agentur Mertin-Litag Inh. Nicole Witt, Frankfurt
John Roderick, Honolulu, Hawaii
Nigel Roe
J. Roger
Sioned Puw Rowlands, director, Welch Literature Abroad
Angeline Rothermundt, managing editor, Arcadia Books
Mary Rowles, title development manager, Independent Publishers Group, Chicago
Felicity Rubinstein, director, Lutyens & Rubinstein literary agency
Piers Russell-Cobb, MD, MediaFund
Stephen Russon, translator
Eva Salzman, poet
Bill Samuel, director, Foyles Bookshop
Don Sanderson
Dr Sukhdev Sandhu, writer
Anna-Lisa Sandstrum, sales manager, Canongate Books
Mary Sandys, editor
Javier Santillan, director, Gadir Editorial, Barcelona
Maria Säntti, MD, Teos Publishers, Helsinki
Kjersti Scheen, prize-winning novelist, Oslo
Piers Schreiber, MD, Estragon Communications
Vivienne Schuster, director, Curtis Brown Group Ltd
Dr Iris Schwanck, director, FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange, Helsinki
Ros Schwartz, chair of the European Council of Literary Translators Associations (CEATL); chair British Centre for Literary Translation Advisory Panel
Kathrin Scheel, Schöffling & Co publishers, Frankfurt
Martin Schifino, writer and translator
Marianne Schönbach, MD, Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency, Amsterdam
Barbara Schwepcke, publisher, Haus Publishing
Irene Scobbie, translator; former reader and head of Scandinavian Studies, Edinburgh University
Chris Searle, author and educationalist
Matt Seaton, The Guardian
Anne Sebba
Andrea See
Elisa Segrave, author
Alejandra Segrelles, rights department, Tusquets Editores, Barcelona
Marie-Martine Serrano, foreign and subsidiary rights manager, Editions Payots & Rivages, Paris
Solveig Gardner Servian, FRAI, FRGS, Polar Publishing
Carole Seymour-Jones, chair, Writers in Prison Committee of English PEN
Qaisra Shahraz, author of The Holy Woman
Lisa Shakespeare
Nicholas Shakespeare
Sebastian Shakespeare, Evening Standard
Ali Sheikholeslami, executive editor, Pulse: Persia (translation project to promote Iranian fiction, ACE funded)
Martin Sheppard, founding publisher, Hambledon & London and a former chair of the Independent Publishers Guild
Lois Sief, OBE, trustee, Stephen Spender Memorial Trust
Briar K. Silich, publisher
Chris Simmons, online editor, crimesquad.com
Alexander Simon, MD, Alexander Simon Literary Agency, Berlin
Dan Simon, publisher, Seven Stories Press, New York
Dr A. Sivanandan, founding editor, Race & Class; director, Institute for Race Relations; Sagittarius Prize, Commonwealth Writers’ Prize
Erik Skuggevik, lecturer in Translation and Cultural Studies, University of Surrey
Ali Smith
Clare Smith
James Smith, Booktrust
Joan Smith, FRSA
Kelvin Smith
Neil Smith, director, Norvik Press
Daniel Soar, senior editor, London Review of Books
Ledha M. Socratous
Ahdaf Soueif, aithor
Frances Spalding
Amy Spangler, translator and literary agent, AnatoliaLit Agency, Istanbul
Luis Miguel Solano, editor and founder, Libros del Asteroide, Barcelona
Nicola Solomon, partner, Finers Stephens Innocent
Colin Spencer
Marina Spyridaki, sales and marketing manager, Arcadia Books
Gunnar Staalesen, novelist, Bergen
Alexis Stamatis, novelist and poet, Athens
Lorna Starbird, poet, Boston
Professor George Steiner, FBA, FRSL, RA (Hon.)
Alan Sillitoe, FRSL
Juliet Stevenson, CBE
Sir Roy Strong, Hon DLitt, PhD, FSA, FRSL
Stephen Stuart-Smith, publisher, Enitharmon Press/Enitharmon Editions Ltd
Cathryn Summerhayes, WMA
Ben Summerskill, CEO, Stonewall
Dr. Narayan Sundaresan, New York
Patience Sundaresan, New York
Jasper Sutcliffe, Foyles
Martin Suter, Swiss novelist, Guatemala City
Karolina Sutton
Bill Swainson, Bloomsbury Publishing
Janice Swanson, Curtis Brown Group Ltd
Fiona Swarbrick, NUJ
Graham Swift, FRSL, Booker Prize
Dr George Szirtes FRSL, FEA, chair, Poetry Book Society
Adrian Tahourdin, Times Literary Supplement
Saori Tanaka
Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner
Alan Taylor; associate editor, Sunday Herald; editor, Scottish Review of Books
D J Taylor
Martin Taylor, MD, Addenda, Auckland
Emma Tennant
Julie Thelot, Turnaround Publisher Services
Rosemarie Thin
Pascal Thivillon, director, Basement Press
Claire Thompson, marketing director, Turnaround Publisher Services
Liz Thomson, editor, Publishing News
Edward Thorpe, novelist and dance critic
Colin Thubron, CBE
Anthony Thwaite, OBE, FRSL, FSA, Hon D Litt
Gillian Tindall, FRSL
Boyd Tonkin, books editor, Independent
J.O. Trafford, novelist
Lyn Tranter, MD, Australian Literary Management, Sydney
Kate Tull, arts administrator
Barry Turner, editor, The Writers’ Handbook
Jaana Väisänen, WS Bookwell Ltd, Porvoo, Finland
Marina Vaizey
Maarten Valken, director, Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature, Amsterdam
Jozef van der Voort
Pilar Velasco, journalist, Santiago de Chile
Baroness Verma of Leicester
Hugo Vickers
Domingo Villar, novelist, Madrid
Eric Visser, publisher, De Geus publishers, Breda
Dr Piret Viras, vice chair, Estonian Writers’ Union, Tallin
Alexa von Hirschberg, assistant to the publisher, Canongate Books
Po Wah Lam, novelist
Monica Waitzfelder, author of L’Oreal Took My Home: The Secrets of a Theft, Paris
Christopher Walker, author and former editor, Penguin Books
Enrique Walker, PhD, lecturer in architecture, Columbia University, New York
Rachel Ward, Forward Translations
Tony Ward, publisher, Arc Publications
Vron Ware, author and journalist
Val Warner
Marilyn Warnick, books editor, The Mail On Sunday
Mary Warnock (Baroness Warnock, DBE, Hon FBA)
Tony Warren, creator of Coronation Street
Ann Waterfall, secretary of the Anglo Portuguese Society
Caroline Waterlow
Andy Webb, sales director, Turnaround Publisher Services
Dr Marie Wells, translator, former University College London W.P Kerr lecturer in Norwegian
Pien Wensina
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Sir Arnold Wesker, FRSL
Sharon Wheeler, editor, reviewingtheevidence
Francis Wheen, author and journalist, winner of the George Orwell Prize and the Isaac Deutscher Prize
Shaun Whiteside, chair, The Translators' Association
Andreas Whittam Smith, CBE
Jutta Willand-Sellner, rights director, Eichborn AG, Frankfurt
Hugo Williams, poet
Tom Williams, Aitken Alexander Associates
Edward Wilson, novelist and educationist
Snoo Wilson, playwright, screenwriter, novelist
Elizabeth Winter, Times Literary Supplement
Gordon Wise, Curtis Brown Group Ltd
Nicole Witt, MD, Agentur Mertin Inh. Nicole Witt, Frankfurt
Peter Wrench
Annabel.Wright
Pippa Wright
Susanna Yager, judge, Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award
Richard Zimler, author of The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Oporto
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