much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . november 2010 learn how and when to remove this template message weidenfeld & nicolson parent company orion publishing group founded 1948 citation needed founder george weidenfeld and nigel nicolson country of origin united kingdom headquarters location london publication types books nonfiction topics history biography celebrity fiction illustrated books . fiction genres fiction and non fiction official website orionbooks.co.uk weidenfeld & nicolson ltd established 1948 often shortened to w & n or weidenfeld is a british publisher of fiction and reference books . since 1991 it has been a division of the orion publishing group . history edit george weidenfeld and nigel nicolson founded weidenfeld & nicolson in 1948 and among many other significant books published vladimir nabokov s lolita 1959 and nicolson s portrait of a marriage 1973 a frank biography of his mother vita sackville west and father harold nicolson . in its early years weidenfeld also published nonfiction works by isaiah berlin hugh trevor roper and rose macaulay and novels by mary mccarthy and saul bellow . later it published titles by world leaders and historians along with contemporary fiction and glossy illustrated books . 1 2 weidenfeld was one of orion s first acquisitions after the group s founding in 1991 and formed the core of its offerings . at that time weidenfeld imprints included phoenix its own establishment much earlier ; and j. m. dent acquired in 1988 and thus its everyman series . orion was acquired in turn by hachette livre in 1998 . 3 the hardcover rights to everyman library were sold in 1991 and survive as a random house property paperbacks everyman classics continued under orion . late in 2013 w & n published the british edition and hachette subsidiary little brown the american edition of i am malala the memoir of pakistani born teenager malala yousafzai with christina lamb . malala yousafzai is a female education activist and the nobel peace prize winner in 2014 . 4 5 books portal references edit a brief history weidenfeld & nicolson . about orion . the orion publishing group . retrieved 2014 04 11 . a brief history foundation . shot pakistani teen malala yousafzai writing book . associated press london . 28 march 2013 . msn news msn.org . retrieved 11 april 2014 . formats and editions of i am malala . worldcat . retrieved 11 april 2014 . bibliography a brief history of the orion publishing group at the wayback machine archived january 22 2010 external links edit weidenfeld & nicolson blog the orion publishing group v t e lagard re sca lagard re publishing hachette livre armand colin calmann l vy dalloz fayard gautier languereau grasset hachette hatier larousse librairie g n rale fran aise 80 % jc latt s pika stock hatier edelsa hachette usa black dog & leventhal center street faithwords grand central hyperion little brown mulholland books orbit yen 49 % hachette uk hachette children s orchard books1 franklin watts1 wayland headline hodder & stoughton coronet hodder faith mulholland quercus sceptre two roads yellow kite hodder education chambers galore park gibson philip allan updates teach yourself john murray little brown constable & robinson orbit virago sphere octopus cassell illustrated conran octopus gaia godsfield hamlyn mitchell beazley philip s spruce orion books weidenfeld & nicolson gollancz lagard re active hachette filipacchi elle france dimanche ici paris le journal du dimanche le journal de mickey 50 % paris match pariscope photo picsou premi re psychologies t l 7 jours groupe marie claire 42 % ditions philippe amaury 25 % tv & radio delta radio canal j europe 1 evropa 2 gulli 66 % jacaranda 94.2 20 % mcm mcm group mezzo 60 % radio zet part owner tiji vibe fm virgin radio france virgin 17 lagard re services curtis circulation hds retail ls travel retail asia pacific virgin megastores france virgin books and music lagard re unlimited agencies sportfive world sport group 70 % events bnp paribas showdown citi open copa del sol hero indian open nordea masters ice wars singapore open superstars swedish open venues commerzbank arena groupama arena volksparkstadion 1 lagard re sca owns these brands in the united kingdom only . these brands are owned by scholastic corporation in the united states . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title weidenfeld % 26 nicolson & oldid 743758655 categories book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 1948british companies established in 1948hidden categories articles lacking reliable references from november 2010all articles lacking reliable referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2014articles with wayback machine links 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 fran aisportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 03 08 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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