Faber & Faber (United Kingdom)
Faber & Faber is a British publisher from London . It is based on Great Russell Street and is organized as a Limited .
Its origins go back to the Scientific Press of Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. To expand the company, he cooperated with Geoffrey Faber from All Souls College in Oxford, who together founded Faber & Gwyer in 1925. When Gwyer left in 1929, the publishing house was renamed Faber & Faber. The writer TS Eliot was recruited as a consultant to the house and formed the publishing management together with Richard de la Mare, Charles Stewart and Frank Morley . The in-house typographer was Berthold Wolpe .
The future Nobel Prize winner Eliot published his poems from the 1920s and the literary magazine The Criterion here . Books by Ezra Pound , Vita Sackville-West , Jean Cocteau , Herbert Read , Geoffrey Keynes , Max Eastman , Charles Williams , Siegfried Sassoon and J. Dover Wilson have also been included in the publishing program . The lyrics included works by Marianne Moore , WH Auden , Wyndham Lewis , Louis MacNeice , James Joyce , Stephen Spender , Walter de la Mare and Roy Campbell .
Among the authors of the 1950s and 1960s were u. a. William Golding , Robert Lowell , Tom Stoppard , Sylvia Plath , PD James , Ted Hughes , Philip Larkin and John Osborne . The Nobel Prize winners Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett then became the publishing house's figureheads. But other playwrights such as Alan Bennett , Alan Ayckbourn and Brian Friel have also been published.
Contemporary writers include a. Orhan Pamuk , Kazuo Ishiguro and Anna Burns . Other classics have been reissued. The US company part was sold in 1998 to the New York company Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In 2008 the Faber Academy for Creative Writing opened, taught by Mike Figgis , Jeanette Winterson and others. In 2009 Faber Digital started with offers for apps and in 2011 the Faber Factory.