Book jacket for The White Tiger

What it means to win the Man Booker Prize

Toby Mundy to speak at publishing event

6 April 2009

The Galley Club, a social organisation for the UK publishing industry, is to host an event called ‘What it means to win the Man Booker prize' with a special talk from Chairman and Publisher of Atlantic Books, Toby Mundy.

Mundy worked at Harper Collins and Weidenfeld & Nicholson before starting Atlantic Books in the UK in 2000. Atlantic Books is the British subsidiary of the American independent publishing house Grove/Atlantic. It published its first book in May 2001 and has since developed a list that has a world-wide reputation for quality, originality and breadth, and includes fiction, history, politics, memoir and current affairs.

Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger was bought by Atlantic Books editor Ravi Mirchandani. Toby Mundy will talk about the impact that winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction has had on Atlantic Books' publishing operation since 2008. The event will take place on Wednesday 8 April at The George, London.

Mundy was awarded 'Editor and Imprint of the Year' at the British Book Awards in 2005; and has an Honorary Doctorate from University of Bournemouth in 2004.

For more information please visit the Galley Club website. 

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