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Martha Kanya-Forstner, Publisher. Martha Kanya-Forstner is the Publisher of Knopf Canada, home to many of the world’s finest writers. Books she has edited have won the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and non-fiction.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (/ k n ɒ p f /) is an American publishing house that was founded by Blanche Knopf and Alfred A. Knopf Sr. in 1915. Blanche and Alfred traveled abroad regularly and were known for publishing European, Asian, and Latin American writers in addition to leading American literary trends.
- 1915; 108 years ago
- New York City, U.S.
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Knopf Canada. For over thirty years, Knopf Canada has been the publishing home for great writers and award-winning books. Knopf Canada’s Canadian and international authors include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Karen Armstrong, Dionne Brand, Bill Gates, Rawi Hage, Tom Hanks, Kate Harris, Sheila Heti, John Irving, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wayne Johnston ...
Knopf Canada was established in 1991 as an editorially independent Canadian branch of Alfred A. Knopf. The founding editor was Louise Dennys. Dennys was already the publisher of many major Canadian books, through her work at the Toronto publishing house Lester & Orpen Dennys. [4] .
- Canada
- Books
- 1944
- Random House, Inc.
Oct 1, 2015 · The following is excerpted from a special edition history of Alfred A. Knopf, on the occasion of the company’s 100th anniversary. Alfred A. Knopf was born on Central Park West in 1892, the son of a successful adman. He was a bookish child and at 16 entered Columbia, where he proved a mostly indifferent student (and […]
May 15, 2015 · In 1915, after working as a page at Doubleday and with publisher Mitchell Kennerley, Alfred A. Knopf accepted a $5,000 advance from his father to begin an eponymous publisher. The company’s ...
Alfred A. Knopf (born September 12, 1892, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 11, 1984, Purchase, New York) was an American publisher, the founder and longtime chairman of the prestigious publishing house Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
