Peter Owen (publisher)

Peter Owen OBE (24 February 1927 – 31 May 2016) was a British publisher, the founder of Peter Owen Publishers.

[1][2][3] He was born Peter Offenstadt in Nuremberg in 1927, with rickets, the only child of a German Jewish couple.

[2] He was sent to live with his grandmother in England at the age of five, later to be joined by his parents, who were reluctant to leave Germany.

[7] Owen's funeral instructions included, "no religious crap of any kind".

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