Carmen Callil
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Death | 2 years ago |
| Date of birth | July 15,1938 |
| Zodiac sign | Cancer |
| Born | Melbourne |
| Australia | |
| Founded | Virago Press |
| Job | Author |
| Publisher | |
| Literary critic | |
| Books | Stop What You're Doing And Read This! |
| A Brief Guide to the Modern Library | |
| Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family & Fatherland | |
| The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English | |
| Subversive Sybils: Women's Popular Fiction this Centurya Talk | |
| Died | London |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | October 17,2022 |
| Education | University of Melbourne |
| Loreto Mandeville Hall Toorak | |
| Star of the Sea College | |
| Movies/Shows | Virago: Changing The World One Page at a Time |
| Nominations | Baillie Gifford Prize |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 506826 |
Carmen Callil Life story
Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, DBE, FRSL was an Australian publisher, writer and critic who spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973 and received the Benson Medal from the Royal Society of Literature in 2017.
How books by women changed the world
The feminist publisher Virago Press was Set Up by Carmen Callil in the 1970s.
It published books by, for, and about women.
She spoke to Witness about why she thought books could help change the way men and women saw each other. (Photo: Carmen Callil . Credit: Getty Images )
: The stories of Our Times told by the people who were there.
Source of news: bbc.com
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