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Peter Owen (publisher)

Peter Owen
Born Peter Offenstadt
(1927-02-24)24 February 1927
Nuremberg, Germany
Died 31 May 2016(2016-05-31) (aged 89)
Nationality British
Occupation Publisher

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

He was born Peter Offenstadt in Nuremberg in 1927, with rickets, the only child of an Anglo-German Jewish couple. His mother was Winifred Offenstadt.

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



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