John Calder
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John Calder is a Canadian and Scottish publisher who founded Calder Publishing in 1949.
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Calder was friends with Samuel Beckett during his life time, and is responsible for initially publishing 85% of the Beckett available today. During the 1950s, he published the translated work of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Goethe and Zola, among others, and was the first publisher to make William S. Burroughs available in the United Kingdom. He was also responsible for a Writer's festival and conference in Edinburgh in the 1950s, uniting writers from all over the world. His company continues to publish Howard Barker, Tim Waterstone, and other figures of literature both past and present. In 2002, John Calder opened the Calder Bookshop in London. In 2006, Lou MacLoughlan and Louise Milne produced the documentary John Calder: A Life in Publishing commemorating his life.
