Liz Calder

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Elisabeth Nicole Calder CBE (née Baber; born 20 January 1938) is an English publisher and book editor. Calder was born Elisabeth Nicole Baber in London on 20 January 1938, the daughter of Florence Mary Baber (née Woodrow) and Ivor George Baber. She spent her early years in London, and in 1949 she emigrated with her family to New Zealand. She graduated with a BA degree in English literature from the University of Canterbury in 1958 and returned to the United Kingdom. During the 1960s, she lived in Canada and the United States and, for four years, in São Paulo, Brazil. Calder began her publishing career in 1971 at Victor Gollancz Ltd, where she published Salman Rushdie’s first novel Grimus (1975), John Irving's The World According to Garp (1978) and Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve 91977). Joining Jonathan Cape in 1979, Calder published two Man Booker Prize winners: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) and Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac (1984). Calder was also Julian Barnes' editor for his first four novels, including Flaubert's Parrot. In 1986, she became a founder director of Bloomsbury Publishing, where her list included Booker winners Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje and Nobel literature laureate Nadine Gordimer. In 1997, Calder was named Editor of the Year at the British Book Awards.