PUBLISHERS OF LITERARY FICTION SINCE 1983
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Phil Baker has written two books for Dedalus: The Dedalus Book of Absinthe and The Devil is a Gentleman: The...
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Robert Baldick was one of Britain's leading French scholars until his untimely death in 1972. Aside from his definitive biography...
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Herman Bang (1857-1912) was from an aristocratic Danish family. His homosexuality led to a smear campaign against him and his...
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Jonathan Barker runs his own design company Seagulls. He has designed The Decadent Handbook, Pleading Guilty and Mr Dick or...
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Richard Barnett is a writer and broadcaster on the cultural history of science and medicine. He studied medicine in London...
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Marcel Bealu was born in the Loir-et-Cher region of France in 1908 and began his working life when only twelve....
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Dedalus has used Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for The Decadent Handbook and J.-K. Huysmans' La-Bas. He also wrote a novel, The...
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William Beckford (1760-1844), the son of one of London's richest ever Lord Mayors, squandered his great wealth in the creation...
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Clara Bell was the first English translator of J.-K. Huysmans' novel The Cathedral. She also translated a number of novels...
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Dr Victoria Best is Lecturer in French at St. John's College, Cambridge.
She specialises in nineteenth and twentieth century French...
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Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Beyrouk) was born in Atar, Mauritania, in 1957. A journalist, he founded the country's first ever independent...
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Najwa Bin Shatwan is a Libyan academic and novelist, the first Libyan to ever be shortlisted for the International Prize...
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Born in 1954, Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès was a lecturer in philosophy at universities in Brazil, China and Italy and,...
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Camillo Boito (1836-1914) became Professor of Architecture at the Accademia delle Belle Arti while only 19 before moving to Milan...
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Hieronymus Bosch was born Jheronimus (or Jeroen) van Aken (meaning "from Aachen"). He signed a number of his paintings as...
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Critic, writer, and translator Ernest Augustus Boyd (1887-1946) was born in Dublin, Ireland. While serving in Baltimore with the British...
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Nicholas Bradbury was born in Lagos, Nigeria, where his father worked as an architect. From the age of four he...
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Peter Brandes is a Danish artist, illustrator and cover designer. He designed the cover of my Fairy-Tale Life for Dedalus.
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Spanish illustrator and artist who has done a series of striking illustrations for The Adventures of Alfanhui by Rafael Sanchez...
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One of the founders of the Russian magazine Glas Andrew Bromfield is one of the most important translators of Russian...
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Pascal Bruckner was born 15 December 1948 in Paris. He is one of the "New Philosophers" who came to prominence...
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Valery Bruisov (1873-1924) was a poet, critic, translator and novelist. He first made his name as a poet and critic...
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Yuri Buida is one of the foremost contemporary Russian writers. He was born in 1954 and is of mixed Russian,...
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Peter Bush was born in Spalding in Lincolnshire and read Spanish and Portuguese at Cambridge University. After a career as...
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