André Deutsch

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André Deutsch (born November 15, 1917 in Budapest , † April 11, 2000 in London ) was an English publisher of Hungarian origin.

Life

German learned his trade at Aldor Publications in London. Together with Francis Aldor , the owner of this publishing house, he was interned on the Isle of Man after the start of the Second World War , after he had fled Austria after the National Socialists came to power .

Deutsch made the acquaintance of Ivor Nicholson and Bernard Watson and switched for a short time from Aldor Publications to their publisher Nicholson & Watson . When a collaboration with George Weidenfeld was not possible after the end of the war , Deutsch founded the publishing house Allan Wingate around 1948 . This existed until 1952 and then went to the publishing house André Deutsch Ltd. on.

This publishing house existed as an independent company until the 1980s and was - compared to other publishing houses - relatively small, but quite influential. Deutsch has published authors such as Michael Anthony , Margaret Atwood , Helene Hanff , Jack Kerouac , Earl Lovelace , Norman Mailer , VS Naipaul , Ogden Nash , Andrew Robinson , Philip Roth , Art Spiegelman , John Updike and Charles Gidley Wheeler .

André Deutsch died on April 11, 2000 in London at the age of 83, where he found his final resting place.

Today the publishing house André Deutsch Ltd. a part ( imprint ) of the Carlton Publishing Group .

literature

  • Diana Athill : André Deutsch. The great persuader . In: Richard Abel, Graham Gordon (Eds.): Immigrant publishers. The impact of expatriate publishers in Britain and America in the 20th century . Transaction Publ., New Brunswick, NJ 2009, ISBN 978-1-4128-0871-2 , pp. 29-40.
  • Diana Athill: Always. A memoir . Grove Press, New York 2001, ISBN 0-8021-1683-3 .
  • Ian Norrie: Mentors and friends. Short lives of leading publishers and booksellers I have known . Elliot & Thompson, London 2006, ISBN 1-9040-2749-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Calder: André Deutsch , obituary in The Guardian , April 12, 2000, accessed March 26, 2017
personal data
SURNAME German, André
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British publisher of Hungarian origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2000
Place of death London