Ion Trewin

Ion Courtenay Gill Trewin (13 July 1943 – 8 April 2015) was a British editor, publisher and author.

Biography

Born in London, the son of J. C. Trewin and Wendy Trewin (née Monk), Ion Trewin was educated at Highgate School.[1] He was the literary editor of The Times from 1972 to 1979 and then became an editor with Hodder & Stoughton (for whom he published Thomas Keneally's Schindler's Ark in 1982) until 1992 and Orion Publishing Group to 2006. He was said to have "an unmatched reputation as a publisher of taste and acumen".[1]

He was director of the Man Booker Prize for a decade and was the biographer of the politician Alan Clark.[1][2][3][4][5] Trewin also edited the three volumes of Clark's diaries.

gollark: Well, regardless of whether you dislike it, it is what is happening.
gollark: Who says there'd be home quantum computing at all? The trend is to encloud everything.
gollark: Mostly for machine learning hardware since the matrix multiplication computations have a very regular pattern, I think.
gollark: Oh yes, optical computing is being used a bit now.
gollark: Hundreds of GHz with the minor downside of requiring cryogenic cooling.

References
  1. Alastair Niven (8 April 2015). "Ion Trewin obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  2. Boyd Tonkin (9 April 2015). "Ion Trewin: Guiding hand behind lauded big-name biographies who became the literary director of the Man Booker prizes". The Independent. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  3. Phil Davison (10 April 2015). "Obituary: Ion Trewin, author and publisher". The Scotsman. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  4. Sarah Shaffi (8 April 2015). "Death of Ion Trewin". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  5. "Man Booker Prize director Ion Trewin dies at 71". BBC News. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
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