Marion Boyars Publishers
Marion Boyars Publishers started out in the sixties as the firm Calder and Boyars, run jointly by John Calder and Marion Boyars. Renowned for publishing adventurous and occasionally controversial fiction and non-fiction, especially in translation, their best known authors include Ken Kesey, Hubert Selby Jr, Kenzaburo Oe, Ivan Illich and Georges Bataille. MBP has had notable success in recent years introducing novelists such as Elif Shafak, Latife Tekin and Hong Ying as well the Iraqi blogger Riverbend, author of Baghdad Burning to an English speaking audience.
