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Jamie Byng

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James Edmund Byng (nacido el 27 de junio de 1969) es un editor británico. Trabaja para la editorial independiente Canongate Books , donde es director ejecutivo y editor. [ 1 ]

Primeros años de vida

Byng creció en el pueblo de Abbots Worthy en Hampshire , Inglaterra. [ 2 ] Segundo hijo del octavo conde de Strafford y su primera esposa, Jennifer May, es hermano de la autora Lady Georgia Byng y, a través de su padrastro, Sir Christopher Bland (el expresidente de la BBC , British Telecom y Royal Shakespeare Company ), es medio hermano de Archie Bland , periodista impreso y ex subdirector de The Independent . [ 3 ] [ 4 ]

Educación y familia

Byng se educó en Winchester College , un internado independiente para chicos en la ciudad catedralicia de Winchester en Hampshire, al sur de Inglaterra , seguido de la Universidad de Edimburgo . [ 5 ] Mientras asistía a la universidad, dirigió un club nocturno de funk , reggae y rare groove llamado "Chocolate City" (en honor al clásico de Parliament ) en The Venue con su primera esposa, Whitney McVeigh , [ 6 ] con quien tiene dos hijos: una hija, Marley, y un hijo, Leo. Whitney McVeigh es hija de una socialité y su padre es un banquero estadounidense. [ 7 ] [ 2 ] Byng y McVeigh se separaron en 2001, y en 2005 Byng se casó con la agente literaria Elizabeth Sheinkman, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] con quien tiene dos hijos, Ivy y Nathaniel. [ 10 ] Byng se separó de Sheinkman en 2016 y se casó con Silvia Gimenez Varela en 2021 y tienen un hijo.

carrera en el mundo editorial

After graduating, he convinced Scottish publisher Stephanie Wolfe Murray to give him a job at Canongate, then a respected but still somewhat marginalised Scottish company founded in 1973,[11] which he joined as an intern.[12] When Canongate was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1994, Byng, then in his mid-20s, instigated a buyout, aided by his business partner Hugh Andrew, his stepfather (former BBC chairman Sir Christopher Bland) and then father-in-law (co-chairman of the multinational investment bank Salomon Smith Barney).[5] His first move in overhauling the company's image was to establish the ultra-hip Payback and Rebel Inc imprints, dedicated to championing cult authors.[13][5]The Pocket Canons (1998) published in partnership with Matthew Darby was Byng's first runaway success: selected books from the Bible individually packaged with new introductions by the Dalai Lama among others. In the wake of the two-million selling, Booker-winning Life of Pi (2001),[11] Canongate won Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2003, reportedly posting pre-tax profits of more than £1 million for that year.

Byng is the initiator and chair of World Book Night,[14] an event in which on 5 March 2011 (following World Book Day on 3 March) one million books – 40,000 copies of each of 25 carefully selected titles – were given away to members of the public in the UK and Ireland. It entailed 20,000 "givers" each distributing 48 copies of their chosen title to whomever they chose.[15]

References

  1. ↑"About us"Archived 1 August 2023 at the Wayback Machine, Canongate.tv.
  2. 12"The real Byng". The Scotsman. 2 June 2006. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  3. ↑Jane Martinson, "List addict prepared to tick off BT television" (interview with Sir Christopher Bland), The Guardian, 10 February 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  4. ↑"GQ and ei's 100 Most Connected Men 2014", GQ, 8 December 2014.
  5. 123"Jamie Byng: Great giveaway by the bad boy of books", Sunday Times, 5 December 2010.
  6. ↑Emily Bearn, "Whitney McVeigh may have social cachet and an illustrious client list, but there's nothing superficial about her commitment to self exposure on canvas", Evening Standard, 16 October 2009.
  7. ↑Stephen Jardine, "Canongate .. I liked it so much I bought the company", The Scotsman, 23 September 2003.
  8. ↑"Elizabeth Sheinkman and James Byng". The New York Times. 3 July 2005.
  9. ↑"Jamie Byng news and features". Tatler. Archived from the original on 24 May 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  10. ↑"The Diary: Jamie Byng", FT.com, 21 April 2012.
  11. 12Libby Brookes, "Posh and books", The Guardian, 1 November 2002.
  12. ↑Fox, Killian (6 March 2016). "Interview: Jamie Byng: 'Listening to letters being read out is quite something'". The Observer.
  13. ↑"Triumph of an odd couple", The Scotsman, 26 October 2002.
  14. ↑Natasha Lunn, "Jamie Byng: This Man Will Make You Read More", Red, 31 March 2015.
  15. ↑"World Book Night". worldbooknight.org.
  • Sam Leith, "The Tao of Mr Jamie Byng" (interview), Mr Porter, 22 February 2018.
  • "The SRB Interview: Jamie Byng", Scottish Review of Books, 2 March 2012.
  • "Porter Anderson meets Jamie Byng", The Bookseller, 29 May 2014.
  • Vicky Allan, "Canongate's Jamie Byng balances the books for 21 years", The Herald, 19 September 2015.