Faber and Faber
Founded	1929
Founder	Geoffrey Faber
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Headquarters location	London
Publication types	Books
Official website	faber.co.uk

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the UK, notable in particular for publishing a great deal of poetry and for its former editor T. S. Eliot. Faber has a rich tradition of publishing a wide range of fiction, non fiction, drama, film and music books, as well as books for children. In 2006 the company was named Publisher of the Year.

Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux, now operated as part of the Macmillan group.

Contents 1 Role in publishing 2 Faber today 3 The Faber Academy 4 Location 5 Nobel Laureates at Faber 6 See also 7 References 8 External links

[edit] Role in publishing

T. S. Eliot rejected two books by George Orwell, A Scullions Tale (the first version of Down and Out) and Animal Farm.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Faber today

Faber and Faber has continued to prosper in recent years. Established names have been joined by new voices including Kazuo Ishiguro, Peter Carey, Orhan Pamuk and Barbara Kingsolver, and its arts lists continue to break new talent in poetry, drama, film and music. Having published the theatrical works of Samuel Beckett for many years, the company acquired the rights to the remainder of his oeuvre from the publishing house of John Calder in 2007.

In 2008 the imprint Faber Finds was set up to make copyrighted out-of-print books available again, using print-on-demand technology.^[1][2] Authors republished in the imprint have included works of the Mass-Observation archives, John Betjeman, Angus Wilson, A. J. P. Taylor, H. G. Wells, Joyce Cary, Nina Bawden, Jean Genet, P. H. Newby, Louis MacNeice, John Carey, F. R. Leavis, Jacob Bronowski, Jan Morris and Brian Aldiss. In 2009 Faber Finds began to roll out an e-book programme.^[3]

Faber's American arm was sold in 1998 to Farrar, Straus and Giroux, where it remains an active imprint focusing on arts, entertainment, media, and popular culture.

[edit] The Faber Academy

Launched in Paris in October 2008, with a course held at the legendary Shakespeare and Company bookshop, the Faber Academy is Faber's creative writing business, offering courses for aspiring writers. Short (one-day or three-day) and long (up to six-months) courses cover "The Art of Publication", "Writing Fiction" and "Becoming a Poet". Course tutors have included Mike Figgis, Jeanette Winterson and Tobias Hill. The courses have been held at locations in London, Paris, Dublin and Toronto.

[edit] Location

The firm's original location was its Georgian offices at 24 Russell Square, in Bloomsbury, London. Faber later moved to 3 Queen Square, London, and on 19 January 2009 the firm moved to Bloomsbury House, 74–77 Great Russell Street, London.

[edit] Nobel Laureates at Faber

• 1948 T. S. Eliot
• 1960 Saint-John Perse
• 1969 Samuel Beckett
• 1980 Czesław Miłosz
• 1983 William Golding
• 1992 Derek Walcott
• 1995 Seamus Heaney
• 1996 Wisława Szymborska
• 1999 Günter Grass
• 2005 Harold Pinter
• 2006 Orhan Pamuk
• 2010 Mario Vargas Llosa

[edit] See also

• List of largest UK book publishers

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website
• The Faber Academy - Creative Writing Courses & Reader Events
• Faber Finds official website
• Faber's archive of podcasts - audio interviews with authors, including P. D. James, Peter Carey and Kazuo Ishiguro
• Loops, the joint Faber & Domino Records curated music journal, first published in 2009 (2nd edition published March 2010)
• Faber and Faber, Inc.
• Photograph of the famous Faber poets, Eliot, Auden, MacNeice, Spender, and Hughes, together at a literary function is archived at the U.K.'s National Portrait Gallery as Photograph NPG x88256