Peter Owen (publisher)
| Peter Owen OBE |
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|---|---|
| Born | Peter Offenstadt 24 February 1927 Nuremberg, Germany |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Publisher |
| Known for | Founder of OBE |
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]
He was sent to live with his grandmother in England at the age of five, later to be joined by his parents, who were reluctant to leave Germany.[4]
In 1948, at the age of 21, Owen went into partnership with Neville Armstrong in a publishing enterprise called Peter Neville.[5] This lasted until 1955.[6] He went on to found Peter Owen Publishers in 1951.
He was awarded the OBE for services to literature in 2014.[7]
Owen's funeral instructions included, "no religious crap of any kind".[2]
References
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- ↑ “MEET THE PUBLISHERS” in Colophon, Vol. 1, Issues 1-11 (1950), p. 34: “Peter Nevill was founded by two young men, Peter Owen and Neville Armstrong. The former, then twenty-one, and the youngest publisher in Britain...”
- ↑ Ian Miller, Other lives: Neville Armstrong, The Guardian, 26 September 2008, accessed 27 July 2021
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