Calder Publishing

Calder Publications is a publisher of books. Starting in 1949, the company published many books on all the arts, particularly subjects such as opera and painting, the theatre and critical and philosophical theory. Calder has been noted for championing avant-garde authors and battling censorship, and has been called one of the most important independent British publishers to emerge in the post-war era. Authors published and supported by Calder have earned 18 Nobel prizes. History John Calder started the publishing house in 1949 when manuscripts were plentiful and many books that were in demand were out of print – in the immediate post-war years paper was scarce and severely rationed. During the 1950s, Calder published a list of translated classics, which included the works of Chekhov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Goethe and Zola among others. In 1957, Calder published The Walk and Other Stories, the first translation of the Swiss author Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton. The 1957 book is considered a key event in recognition of Walser as an modernist figure not only in English-language awareness but also in Swiss and German-language scholarship as Walser had been largely