| LC control no. | n 97080499 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Owen, Peter, 1927-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Offenstadt, Peter, 1927-2016 |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1927-02-25 |
| Death date | 2016-05-31 |
| Place of birth | Nuremberg (Germany) |
| Field of activity | Translations--Publishing |
| Affiliation | Peter Owen (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Publishers and publishing |
| Found in | Publishing now, 1996: t.p. (Peter Owen) BLAISE, May 1997 (hdg.: Owen, Peter, 1927-) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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