Calder, John, 1927-2018

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Name (Latin)
Calder, John, 1927-2018
Other forms of name
Calder, John, 1927-
Date of birth
1927-01-25
Date of death
2018-08-13
Associated country
Great Britain
Occupation
Authors
Publishers and publishing
Translators
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 163452139
Wikidata: Q6224786
Library of congress: n 85120014
HAI10: 000621464
Sources of Information
  • A regicide, 2015:t.p. (translated by John Calder)
  • Alma Books WWW site, viewed Aug. 20, 2018(Since 1949, John Calder has published eighteen Nobel Prize winners and around fifteen hundred books. He has put into print many of the major French and European writers, almost single-handedly introducing modern literature into the English language. His commitment to literary excellence has influenced two generations of authors, readers, booksellers and publishers. He is the author of several plays, a memoir and various non-fiction titles; translator of: A regicide / Alain Robbe-Grillet)
  • New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 20, 2018(in obituary published Aug. 19: John Calder; b. John Mackenzie Calder, Jan. 25, 1927, Montreal; d. Aug. 13, Edinburgh, aged 91; independent British publisher who built a prestigious list of authors like Samuel Beckett and Heinrich Böll and spiritedly defended writers like Henry Miller against censorship)
  • The Nouveau roman reader, 1985:CIP t.p. (John Calder)
  • BNB 1985(Calder, John, 1927- )
  • WW 2000(John Mackenzie Calder, b. 25 Jan. 1927)