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2 December 2020

Carmen Callil Q&A: “Everyone says: ‘Carmen, do stop’”

The publisher discusses the leaders of the French Revolution, watching Call My Agent and reading Charles Dickens. 

By New Statesman

Carmen Callil was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1938. She founded Virago Press in 1973 to “publish books which celebrated women and women’s lives”.

Everything before the age of nine is a blank for me. That is how old I was when my father died and his death changed my family’s life entirely.

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