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| Parent company | Macmillan Publishers |
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| Founded | 1972; 53 years ago (1972) |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
Picador is animprint ofPan Macmillan in the United Kingdom and Australia and ofMacmillan Publishing in the United States. Both companies are owned byGeorg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
Picador was launched in the UK in 1972 by publisherSonny Mehta as a literary imprint ofPan Books with the aim of publishing outstanding international writing in paperback editions only. In 1990, Picador started publishing its own hardcovers. Picador in the UK continues to publish fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from around the world, including works by formerBritish Poet LaureateCarol Ann Duffy,Ted Hughes Award-winnerKae Tempest,[1] andBooker Prize winnerDouglas Stuart.[2] Picador has also published commercial bestsellers such asJessie Burton'sThe Miniaturist andAdam Kay'sThis is Going to Hurt .
In the summer of 2018, the US branch of Picador announced that starting in April 2019 it would no longer publish original titles and would focus exclusively on reprinting as trade paperbacks literary works originated by editors elsewhere at Macmillan.[3]
Picador authors across the UK and the USA have includedJonathan Franzen,Michael Chabon,Marilynne Robinson,Angela Carter,Thomas Pynchon,Raj Patel,Jon Ronson,Alan Hollinghurst,Graham Swift,John Banville,Patrick McCabe,Tim Winton,Mick Jackson,Colm Toibin,Trezza Azzopardi,Edward St Aubyn,Emma Donoghue,Jim Crace,Sunjeev Sahota,Hanya Yanagihara,Pankaj Mishra,Bret Easton Ellis,Denis Johnson,Sir Salman Rushdie,Cormac McCarthy, andDon Delillo.
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