Oneworld Publications is a British independent
publishing firm founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar
and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible
non-fiction by experts and academics for the
general market. Based in London, it later
added a literary fiction list (in 2009) and
both a children's list (Rock the Boat, 2015)
and an upmarket crime list (Point Blank, 2016),
and now publishes across a wide range of subjects,
including history, politics, current affairs,
popular science, religion, philosophy, and
psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime
fiction and suspense, and children's titles.
A large proportion of Oneworld fiction across
all its lists is translated.
Among the writers on the Oneworld list are
Marlon James, Jean Guerrero, Paul Beatty,
Gloria Steinem, A. C. Grayling, Iain Sinclair,
Stanley Johnson, Jenni Murray, Jason Segel,
Antonia Fraser, Richard Adams, Anne-Marie
Slaughter, Sean M. Carroll, Samanta Schweblin,
Barnaby Phillips, Martin Bell, David McRaney,
Jared Diamond, Ivor Crewe, Anthony King, Ilan
Pappe, Mary Roach, Adam Frank, Peter Cave,
Jean Sasson, William Poundstone, John Hick,
Hans Küng, Helen Fisher, Atticus Lish, Peter
Matthiessen, Amit Chaudhuri, Kamel Daoud,
Caryl Phillips, Jane Urquhart, Sun-mi Hwang,
Margaret Mazzantini, Yvvette Edwards, Joseph
Boyden, Iman Verjee, Deborah Kay Davies, Peter
Fiennes, Miranda Kaufmann, Martin Bell and
Anthony Warner.
== History ==
Oneworld Publications was founded in 1986
by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey, who had
met as students in the 1970s and subsequently
married; the company's name reflects their
international approach to publishing with
global values, initially producing non-fiction
"with a focus on bold, intelligent non-fiction
across the humanities".In 2009 Oneworld launched
a literary fiction list to focus on publishing
inspiring, intelligent and thought-provoking
novels from around the world. The list has
received a string of prizes and award nominations,
among them winning the prestigious Man Booker
Prize for two years running: in 2015 with
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon
James, and in 2016 with The Sellout by Paul
Beatty, who became the first American winner
of the prize. A Cupboard Full of Coats by
Yvvette Edwards, a debut British novelist,
was longlisted in 2011 for the Man Booker
Prize and was shortlisted in 2012 for the
Commonwealth Book Prize. Reasons She Goes
to the Woods by Deborah Kay Davies was longlisted
for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for
the Encore Award in 2015. Also in 2015, Diane
Cook's Man V. Nature was shortlisted for the
Guardian First Book Award, Ishmael’s Oranges
by Claire Hajaj was shortlisted for the Authors'
Club First Novel Award and the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate
Literary Prize, and The Meursault Investigation
— a multi-award winner in France — was
longlisted for the FT Emerging Voices Award
and was also shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld
Translation Prize (translated by John Cullen),
along with Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (translated
by Lisa Hayden). Laurus also won the Read
Russia Translation Prize in 2016. Currently
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (translated
by Megan McDowell) is shortlisted for the
Man Booker International Prize, Umami by Laia
Jufresa (translated by Sophie Hughes) is shortlisted
for the Best Translated Book Award in the
US, and Masha Regina by Vadim Leventhal (translated
by Lisa Hayden) is shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld
Translation Prize.
On the non-fiction side, Oneworld titles have
received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations.
In 2013 The Particle at the End of the Universe
by Sean Carroll won the prestigious Royal
Society Winton Prize, for which Mary Roach's
Gulp was also shortlisted the following year;
Greg Grandin's The Empire of Necessity was
shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize,
while Serhii Plokhy's The Last Empire won
the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize for 2015,
and the same year saw a double shortlisting
for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year
for The Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford
and Unfinished Business by Anne-Marie Slaughter
- and the prize was won by The Rise of the
Robots.
Originally set up in Oxford, Oneworld bought
its first permanent office in Bloomsbury,
London, in 2012.
Oneworld now publishes around 100 titles a
year, which are distributed worldwide by Random
House (GBS) in the UK, by Publishers Group
West in the United States, by Bloomsbury Publishing
in Australia, by Pan Macmillan in Europe,
India and the Middle East, by Penguin Group
in the Far East, by Jonathan Ball in South
Africa, and by a variety of regional distributors
in Latin America and other territories.
=== Imprints ===
In 2015 Oneworld launched "Rock the Boat",
a list of fiction and non-fiction for children
and young adults 0-19, and in 2016 launched
a literary crime list, "Point Blank". In 2017
Oneworld set up Oneworld Academic.
== Awards ==
In 2016 Oneworld won the Independent Publisher
of the Year Award at the British Book Industry
Awards.In March 2016 Oneworld also won the
Ruth Killick Publicity Trade Publisher of
the Year Award at the 2016 IPG Independent
Publishing Awards.Oneworld received the Alison
Morrison Diversity Award at the 2017 IPG Independent
Publishing Awards.In May 2017 Juliet Mabey,
publisher and co-founder of Oneworld, won
the Editor of the Year Award at the British
Book Industry Awards.
== Notes ==
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External links ==
Company Website
Oneworld: the tiny publisher behind the last
two Man Booker winners
Oneworld Publisher of the Week at Book Depository
Oneworld, One Household: Publishing Perspectives
Feature on Oneworld
Booker Longlist Focus on Oneworld
