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Ernest Hecht OBE (21 September 1929 – 13 February 2018) was a British publisher, producer, and philanthropist. In 1951, he founded Souvenir Press Ltd, one of the very few remaining independently owned major publishing houses in Great Britain. In 2003 he set up the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation.
About Ernest Hecht. Ernest Hecht was perhaps the most unconventional figure in British publishing. He was certainly the scruffiest. Fast-talking (he has been called “the Brian Clough of publishing”), mischievous but with a shrewd eye for an unlikely bestseller, he had the untidiest office that I have ever seen, with books and notes double ...
Ernest Hecht was Managing Director and owner of Souvenir Press Ltd, one of the few remaining independently owned major publishing houses in Britain. He was also a legendary figure in the UK publishing industry and was awarded the first lifetime achievement award at the British Book Awards in 2001.
Feb 22, 2018 · By Jason Cowley. My close friend Ernest Hecht, who died last week, was the last of a remarkable generation of Jewish émigré publishers who transformed and enlivened the British book scene, once the preserve of gentlemen, in the decades after the Second World War and before the era of conglomeration. Unlike the imprints of his fellow émigrés ...
Feb 13, 2018 · News Feb 13, 2018 by Katherine Cowdrey. Ernest Hecht OBE, founder and publisher of Souvenir Press, has died at the age of 88. Hecht died in hospital after a short illness, but had remained at...
Apr 2, 2016 · Ernest Hecht set up Souvenir Press from his bedroom in 1951. Now, following the death of Lord Weidenfeld, he is the last of the group of remarkable Jewish émigrés who transformed postwar...
Ernest Hecht OBE (21 September 1929 – 13 February 2018) was a British publisher, producer, and philanthropist. In 1951, he founded Souvenir Press Ltd, one of the very few remaining independently owned major publishing houses in Great Britain. In 2003 he set up the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation.
