As well as handling (and selling!) translation rights for many of our authors and having many great publishing partnerships all around the world, Canongate has particularly important relationships with two fellow independents – Text Publishing in Melbourne and Grove/Atlantic in New York.
Text is part-owned by Canongate but is very much an Australian company, publishing a wide array of writers including many that we also publish here in Britain (Barack Obama, Louise Welsh, Steven Hall, Niccolo Ammaniti, James Meek, Kate Grenville, Scarlett Thomas, Ismail Kadare, Helen Garner, Neil Strauss, MJ Hyland, Yann Martel, Michel Faber and the whole of the Myths series) and others that we wish we did (including Tim Flannery, JM Coetzee, Lloyd Jones, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Lionel Shriver and Murray Bail). Founded in 1994 by Michael Heyward who remains its widely admired publisher and managing director, Text has emerged over the last decade as the most exciting new list on the Australian publishing scene.
Grove/Atlantic celebrated its fiftieth birthday recently and is the fusion of Grove Press (Barney Rosset's maverick independent list, founded in 1951 and responsible for publishing the likes of Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, Jean Genet, Henry Miller and Harold Pinter) and the Atlantic Monthly Press (another great independent with a long and influential history). The two lists were brought together in 1991 by Morgan Entrekin who continues to run the company with enormous skill and passion, publishing the likes of Kiran Desai, Charles Frazier, Francisco Goldman, Kenzaburo Oe, Tom Stoppard, Anne Enright, Donna Leon, PJ O'Rourke, Kathy Acker, Richard Flanagan and Mark Bowden. In 2004 Canongate entered into a joint venture in America with Grove/Atlantic and as a result we publish a number of our most important writers on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in Australia too.
