Carmen Callil
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Carmen Callil (b. 1938) is the founder of the Virago Press. She created the independent publishing house in 1972 and she continued to chair it until 1995. At Virago Carmen was responsible for the creation and development of the Virago modern classics list and published writers.
She was born in Melbourne, Australia, where she graduated in Arts, and came to the UK in 1960. Carmen Callil's father, of Irish-Lebanese extraction, was a barrister and Lecturer in French at the University of Melbourne. He died when she was nine years old. She was a Director of Channel 4 Television from 1985 to 1991.
In 2006, she published Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland, a biography of Louis Darquier, whose daughter, the London psychiatrist Anne Darquier had, until her suicide in 1970, been treating Callil since the latter had attempted suicide.
[edit] External References
- "The enemies of free speech are everywhere", by Henry Porter in The Observer, 15 October 2006
- "French embassy cancels N.Y. book launch over author's Israel views", by Reuters in Haaretz, 10 October 2006
- "Vile days in Vichy", by Peter Conrad in The Observer, 26 March 2006
