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Variants
- Offenstadt, Peter, 1927-2016
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1927-02-25
Death Date
- 2016-05-31
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1951
- Affiliation End: 2016
- Organization: Peter Owen (Firm)
Birth Place
- Nuremberg (Germany)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
(lcsh) Translations--Publishing
Occupation
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: Publishing now, 1996:t.p. (Peter Owen)
- found: BLAISE, May 1997(hdg.: Owen, Peter, 1927-)
- found: Guardian (online), viewed June 3, 2016(Peter Owen; b. Feb. 25, 1927, Nuremberg, Germany; family name was Offenstadt; dispatched to England to live with his grandparents in north-west London, 1933; d. May 31, 2016; publisher whose list of writers included 10 Nobel prizewinners; launched Peter Owen Books, 1951; described himself in 1993 as "one of the few remaining independent publishers specialising in translation," and at his death his mission and position in British publishing remained unchanged)
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Collection Membership(s)
Change Notes
- 1997-08-11: new
- 2016-06-03: revised
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