Viking Press
| Viking Press | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Holding |
| founding | March 1, 1925 Founder Harold K. Guinzburg George S. Oppenheim |
| resolution | 1975 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by the Penguin Group |
| Seat | New York City , USA |
| management | Clare Ferraro |
| Branch | Book publisher |
| Website | Viking Press at us.penguingroup.com |
Viking Press is an American publisher that has been part of the Penguin Group since 1975 .
Company history
The publishing house was founded on March 1, 1925 in New York City by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim . Their founding motto was:
"To publish a strictly limited list of good nonfiction, such as biography, history and works on contemporary affairs, and distinguished fiction with some claim to permanent importance rather than ephemeral popular interest."
"To publish a strictly limited list of good non-fiction books such as biographies, history books and works of contemporary literature or excellent fiction of lasting importance and public interest."
The company name and logo, a Viking ship designed and drawn by Rockwell Kent , were chosen as the company's symbols to underline adventure and exploration with the publishing industry. The first Viking Press lists published in the fall of 1925 included books by August Strindberg , Carl van Doren , Vita Sackville-West , Mohandas Gandhi , Bertrand Russell, and Thorstein Veblen .
Well -known authors such as Pascal Covici and John Steinbeck joined the company in the late 1930s . After the publication of Steinbeck's first novel, the publisher brought out The Grapes of Wrath and the first American edition of James Joyce ' Finnegans Wake and Graham Greene's Brighton Rock in 1938/39 . Steinbeck and Greene worked with Viking Press for many years.
From 1949 the publisher published Death of a Salesman and The Crucible by the American playwright Arthur Miller . Saul Bellow had his third novel The Adventures of Augie March , which won the National Book Award in 1953 , and other award-winning novels published by Viking Press, and in 1976 Bellow was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . From 1957 onwards, Viking Press published classic Jack Kerouac novels such as On the Road and Dharma Bums .
In the following decades the publisher published books by William S. Burroughs , Hannah Arendt , Peter Matthiessen , Barbara Tuchman , Wallace Stegner , Octavio Paz , Kingsley Amis , Robert Coover , Lawrence Durrell , Frederick Forsyth and Thomas Pynchon (his novel Gravity's Rainbow won 1973 the National Book Award). In 1975 Viking was sold to Penguin Books in England. The name of the publisher was changed to Viking Penguin.
In the early 1980s, Viking brought out books by the most innovative and popular authors of the time. Including Stephen King , Phillip Roth , Terry McMillan , TC Boyle , Bruce Chatwin , Don DeLillo (whose novel White Noise won the National Book Award in 1985), Jorge Luis Borges , Robertson Davies , William Kennedy (his novel Ironweed "Wolfsmilch" won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize ), David Lodge , William Trevor, and Garrison Keillor . In 1989, Viking hit the headlines for the publication of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses and unleashed a storm of controversy when Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa on the author.
Viking Penguin renowned book award winners include authors Roddy Doyle with his novels Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and JM Coetzee , who was the first author to win the award for two of his books ( Life and Times of Michael K in 1983 and Disgrace in 1999). In 2003 Coetzee received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Among all the authors whose books the publisher has published so far, five have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Viking currently produces around 100 publications a year.
Viking Children's Books
In 1933, Viking Press created a new division, Viking Children's Books , for the publication of authors such as Sherwood Anderson , James Joyce, John Steinbeck and Rebecca West . The first editor was May Massee , who made Junior Books a leader in children's books. The first list of books included The Story About Ping , classics like Make Way for Ducklings , The Story of Ferdinand , The Twenty-one Balloons , Pippi Longstocking ( Pippi Longstocking ) and others.
In 1985, Viking was the first children's book publisher to win the Carey Thomas Award and was twice nominated for the LMP Award .
Publishing management
Since joining the Penguin Group in December 1997, Clare Ferraro has served as President of the Viking Press , Plume , Hudson Street Press and Pamela Dorman Books publishing groups . Prior to that, she held a number of other advertising and management roles at Ballantine Books for 19 years , including Editor-in-Chief, Editor and Public Relations Director. Regina Hayes, who joined Viking Press in 1982, heads the children's books division.
Awards / literary prizes
- Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1962: John Steinbeck, USA
- 1976: Saul Bellow, USA
- 1991: Nadine Gordimer, South Africa
- 2003: JM Coetzee, South Africa
- Nobel Peace Prize
- 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi , Burma
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
- 1972: Wallace Stegner for Angle of Repose
- 1976: Saul Bellow for Humboldt's Gift
- 1984: William Kennedy for Ironweed
- 1995: Carol Shields for The Stone Diaries
- 2006: Geraldine Brooks for March
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- 1976: John Ashbery for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
- 2002: Carl Dennis for Practical Gods
- Further prices
- 16 National Book Award, 6 National Book Critics Circle Award , 4 Booker Prize , 2 Faulkner Award for American Fiction and many more.
Web links
- Viking Press at us.penguingroup.com
Individual evidence
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