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John Calder Great Britain    PWF 2002, 2000, 1997

He founded his publishing house in London in the late forties and has published almost fifteen hundred books – a list that includes twenty Nobel Prize Winners and the nouveaux romanciers.

Henry Miller, William S. Burroughs, Antonin Artaud, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Marguerite Duras, Nathalie Sarraute, Claude Simone, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Samuel Beckett were first seen on the many Calder dust wrappers flickering round Soho.

In Defense of Literature a book essays celebrating Calder’s fifty years in publishing coincided with the publication of What’s Wrong, What’s Right? his first collection of poetry in 1999. The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett a study of his friend and author and Pursuit an autobiography appeared last year. The Garden of Eros  awaits publication.

John Calder lives in Paris.