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John Calder

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John Mackenzie Calder (born 25 January 1927) is a Canadian and Scottish publisher who founded Calder Publishing in 1949. [1]

32 relations: Anton Chekhov, April FitzLyon, Émile Zola, Calder Publishing, Canada, Carole Morin, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Faber and Faber, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Howard Barker, Jim Haynes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Kinross and Western Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency), Last Exit to Brooklyn, Ledlanet Nights, Leo Tolstoy, Liberal Party (UK), Marion Boyars, Milnathort, New Left, Partisan Coffee House, Publishing, Samuel Beckett, Scotland, Soho, Sonia Orwell, The Daily Telegraph, Tim Waterstone, Waiting for Godot, Waterloo, London, William S. Burroughs.

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (ɐnˈton ˈpavɫəvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history.

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April FitzLyon

April FitzLyon (22 April 1920 – 17 September 1998) was an English translator, biographer, and historian.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Calder Publishing

Calder Publications is a publisher of books.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Carole Morin

Carole Morin is a Glasgow-born novelist who lives in Soho, London.

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Edinburgh International Book Festival

The Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF) is a book festival that takes place in the last three weeks of August every year in Charlotte Square in the centre of Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh.

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Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual festival of performing arts in Edinburgh, Scotland, over three weeks in August.

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Faber and Faber

Faber and Faber Limited, often abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in the United Kingdom.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.

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Howard Barker

Howard Barker (born 28 June 1946) is a British playwright, screenwriter and writer of radio drama, poet, and essayist writing predominantly on playwriting and the theatre.

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Jim Haynes

James Haynes (born 10 November 1933), commonly known as Jim Haynes, is a former figure in the British "underground" and alternative/counter-culture scene of the 1960s.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman.

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Kinross and Western Perthshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Kinross and Western (or West) Perthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1918 until 1983, representing, at any one time, a seat for one Member of Parliament (MP), elected by the first past the post system of election.

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Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn is a 1964 novel by American author Hubert Selby Jr. The novel has become a cult classic because of its harsh, uncompromising look at lower class Brooklyn in the 1950s and for its brusque, everyman style of prose.

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Ledlanet Nights

Ledlanet Nights in Kinrosshire, Scotland, was an arts festival that operated from 1962 for around ten years.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lyov (also Lev) Nikolayevich Tolstoy (also Лев) Николаевич ТолстойIn Tolstoy's day, his name was written Левъ Николаевичъ Толстой.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Marion Boyars

Marion Ursula Boyars, née Asmus (26 October 1927 – 1 February 1999), was a British publisher.

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Milnathort

Milnathort is a small town in the parish of Orwell in Kinross-shire, Scotland.

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New Left

The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.

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Partisan Coffee House

The Partisan Coffee House was a radical venue of the New Left, at 7 Carlisle Street in the Soho district of London.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Soho

Soho is an area of the City of Westminster, part of the West End of London.

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Sonia Orwell

Sonia Mary Brownell (25 August 1918 – 11 December 1980), better known as Sonia Orwell, was the second and last wife of writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Tim Waterstone

Sir Tim Waterstone (born 30 May 1939) is a British businessman, author and philanthropist.

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Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters.

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Waterloo, London

Waterloo is a district in Central London, and part of the Bishops ward of the London Borough of Lambeth.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calder

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