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Carmen Callil

October 2022

  • Carmen Callil in a high-collared coat, sitting by a table laden with ornate glassware. Two framed floral still lifes and a copy of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf are in the background

    Virago founder Carmen Callil remembered by her friend Rachel Cooke: ‘Of course she was difficult’

    The Observer writer on the brilliant publisher, a larger-than-life character among whose many talents was an extraordinary capacity for friendship
  • Susannah Clapp

    Notebook
    A Sultry Month changed how I viewed history. It is well that it has been reissued

    Susannah Clapp
    Faber has blown the dust off Alethea Hayter’s groundbreaking biography of London’s 19th-century literati – not before time

    • Virago founder Carmen Callil was a powerhouse who changed the publishing world for the better

    • Dame Carmen Callil obituary

    • Carmen Callil, pioneering champion of female writers, dies aged 84

November 2020

  • Callil’s great-grandparents, Mary Ann Brooks and Alfred Allen (seated, centre), with her grandfather, Ernest (far right), in a photograph taken in Melbourne in 1895.

    Oh Happy Day by Carmen Callil review – tearful compassion and eloquent rage

    The Virago Press founder unearths the remarkable tale of her ancestors down under

June 2017

  • Actor Billy Connolly

    Billy Connolly leads the way in Queen’s birthday honours list

    Actor knighted in recognition of services to entertainment and charity, and is joined by Paul McCartney, JK Rowling and Delia Smith on the list

January 2015

  • Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press, 1996.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 26 January 1981: Virago Press gives women writers a voice

    Originally published in the Guardian on 26 January 1981: Carmen Callil’s publishing company has set about proving that there are many excellent but neglected women writers well worth publishing and reprinting

March 2013

  • Virago women in 1988

    Has Virago changed the publishing world's attitudes towards women?

    It's 40 years since Virago Books was set up to celebrate the work of female writers. So how successful has it been in opening up the way for more women authors?

July 2012

  • Greenslade
    Magazine they said would never last celebrates its 20th anniversary

    Richard Ingrams launches a book and throws a party to mark The Oldie's birthday

June 2011

  • We all love a literary spat. But let's not forget about the books

    Alex Clark
    Alex Clark: If it's not Callil resigning from the Booker jury, it's Naipaul condemning women writers. All great fun, as long as we separate the debate from the reading

May 2011

  • PHILIP ROTH

    The debate
    Why does Philip Roth provoke such strong reaction?

    William Skidelsky and Alex Clark

  • Roth, male writers and female readers

  • Philip Roth in New York

    Philip Roth protest had nothing to do with feminism, says Virago founder

  • awards ceremony for the 2009 Man Booker prize at the Guildhall

    Man Booker International prize comes of age

  • Philip Roth is one of the great artists of the novel, warts and all

    Jonathan Jones

  • Shortcuts
    Philip Roth: a controversial winner?

  • Robert McCrum on books
    Philip Roth more than deserves his Booker

  • Judge withdraws over Philip Roth's Booker win

August 2007

  • The fearful fighter

    A life in books: Carmen Callil, who co-founded Virago 34 years ago, has always relished a battle. Responses to her latest book, about Vichy France, have forced her into the ring once more.

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