<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Marion Boyars Publishers started out in the sixties as the firm Calder and Boyars which was run jointly by John Calder and Marion Boyars. When the firm split in 1975, Marion Boyars Publishers was formed. When Marion Boyars died in 1999, her daughter Catheryn Kilgarriff took over and she is still the Managing Director.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Renowned for publishing adventurous and occasionally controversial fiction and non-fiction, especially in translation, their best known authors include <a href="http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/AUTHORS/Ken%20Kesey.html">Ken Kesey</a>, <a href="http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/AUTHORS/Hubert%20Selby%20Jr.html">Hubert Selby Jr</a>, Kenzaburo Oe, Ivan Illich and <a href="http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/AUTHORS/Georges%20Bataille.html">Georges Bataille</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Today <span>the publisher still</span> strives to keep up these noble traditions and has had notable success in recent years introducing novelists such as <a href="http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/AUTHORS/Elif%20Shafak.html">Elif Shafak</a>, Latife Tekin and <a href="http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/AUTHORS/Hong%20Ying.html">Hong Ying</a> as well the Iraqi blogger Riverbend, author of <a href="http://www.marionboyars.co.uk/Amy%20individual%20book%20info/Baghdad%20Burning.html">Baghdad Burning</a> to an English speaking audience.</span></p>
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