citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message founded in 1951 1 peter owen publishers is a family run london based independent publisher based in london england . history edit the company was founded in 1951 by peter owen who had previously worked for stanley unwin at the bodley head . 1 owen s first editor was muriel spark who would later write a novel called a far cry from kensington drawing on her experiences working there . 2 notable authors on an eclectic list include paul bowles and jane bowles the japanese catholic author shusaku endo salvador dal 3 andr gide jean cocteau colette anna kavan ana s nin 4 natsume s seki yukio mishima hermann hesse 1 karoline leach the revisionist biographer of lewis carroll hans henny jahnn tarjei vesaas miranda miller jared cade author of agatha christie and the eleven missing days and many others . although best known for fiction especially in translation the company also publishes plenty of non fiction . references edit a b c john self peter owen sixty years of innovation books blog the guardian 4 july 2011 . emily hill novel approach peter owen dazed february 2011 . julie cirelli peter owen on salvador dal another 24 june 2011 . stephen fowler blazing the trail an interview with peter owen 3 am magazine 24 november 2009 . external links edit official website this article about a publishing company in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title peter owen publishers & oldid 725777874 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies based in londonpublishing companies established in 1951united kingdom publishing company stubshidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2014all articles needing additional referencesall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages e tina edit links this page was last modified on 17 june 2016 at 20 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view