Record ID:
41630723 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • no 00007536 n 2006014859
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1938-07-15
  • Melbourne (Vic.)
  • 1960 - 2022
Death:
  • 2022-10-17
  • London (England)
  • 1960 - 2022
Associated with:
  • Australia
  • England 1960 - 2022
Lived/located in:
  • London (England) 1960 - 2022
Fields of activity:
  • Publishers and publishing
Occupations:
  • Women publishers until 1994
  • Women authors Women critics
Used for:
  • Callil, Carmen Thérése, 1928-2022
See also:
See also:
Notes:
  • Her The modern library, 1999 t.p. (Carmen Callil) dust jacket (Carmen Callil founded The Virago Press in 1972 and later ran Chatto and Windus for over a decade. She was Chair of the 1996 Judges of the Booker Prize. An Australian, she lives in London)
  • Bad faith, 2006 t.p. (Carmen Callil) dust jacket (b. 1938 in Melbourne, Australia; came to UK in 1960)
  • NLA Signed Rights Agreement (21 June 2017) (life dates, 1938-)
  • Wikipedia 11 October 2023: Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE, FRSL (15 July 1938 – 17 October 2022) was an Australian publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973 and received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017. She has been described by Gail Rebuck as "the most extraordinary publisher of her generation". Callil was born in Melbourne, Victoria, daughter of a barrister and French lecturer of Lebanese descent (Frederick Alfred Louis Callil, who died in 1947). She studied at the University of Melbourne (BA 1960); she moved to London in 1960, and began work in publishing in 1965. In 1973 she founded Virago Books; in 1977 the series Virago modern classics commenced under her direction, to bring past publications by women back into print. Virago was acquired by Chatto and Windus, and Callil became managing director in 1982, until she left publishing in 1994-5. She continued in criticism and her own writing, culminating in her own family history work, Oh Happy Day (2020). She died at home in London, leaving a personal memoir uncompleted.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Callil
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)883895
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda ANL DGU DLC NcD VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc