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{{Short description|British book publishing company}}
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| founded = 1986
| founders = Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey
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| headquarters = [[Bloomsbury Street]] [[London]], {{postcode|WC|1}}
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'''Oneworld Publications''' is a British independent [[publishing firm]] founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey originally to publish accessible non-fiction by experts and academics for the general market.<ref name="oneworld_about">[http://www.oneworld-publications.com/about "About Us"], Oneworld Publications.</ref> Based in [[London]], it later added a literary fiction list (in 2009) and both a children's list ('''Rock the Boat''', 2015) and an upmarket crime list ('''Point Blank''', 2016), and now publishes across a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, current affairs, popular science, religion, philosophy, and psychology, as well as literary fiction, crime fiction and suspense, and children's titles.

==History==
Oneworld Publications was founded in 1986 by Novin Doostdar and Juliet Mabey, who had met as students in the 1970s and subsequently married;<ref name="Guardian interview">Alison Flood, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/oneworld-publisher-behind-man-booker-winners-juliet-mabey-novin-doostdar-interview "Oneworld: the tiny publisher behind the last two Man Booker winners"], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 15 November 2016.</ref><ref>Robert Dex, [https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/books/meet-the-husbandandwife-publishing-team-who-backed-booker-prize-winner-marlon-james-a3090331.html "Meet the husband-and-wife publishing team who backed Booker Prize winner Marlon James"], ''[[Evening Standard]]'', 14 October 2015.</ref> the company's name reflects their international approach to publishing with global values, initially producing non-fiction "with a focus on bold, intelligent non-fiction across the humanities".<ref>Juliet Mabey, [http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/04/oneworld-life-in-publishing/#.WCyCTNKLTZ4 "Oneworld, One Household: A Husband and Wife and a Life in Publishing"], ''Publishing Perspectives'', 8 April 2011.</ref><ref>[https://paperneverland.wordpress.com/tag/oneworld-publications/ "Oneworld Publications"], Paper Neverland, 1 December 2015.</ref>

In 2009, Oneworld launched a literary fiction list to focus on publishing inspiring, intelligent and thought-provoking novels from around the world. The list has received a string of prizes and award nominations, among them winning the prestigious [[Man Booker Prize]] for two years running: in 2015 with ''[[A Brief History of Seven Killings]]'' by [[Marlon James (novelist)|Marlon James]], the first Jamaican to win this prestigious award, and in 2016 with ''[[The Sellout (book)|The Sellout]]'' by [[Paul Beatty]], who became the first American winner of the prize.<ref>Alison Flood and Mark Brown, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/13/man-booker-shortlist-2016-announced-graeme-macrae-burnet-deborah-levy "Man Booker shortlist 2016: tiny Scottish imprint sees off publishing giants"], ''The Guardian'', 13 September 2016.</ref><ref>[http://themanbookerprize.com/news/sellout-wins-2016-man-booker-prize "Sellout Wins 2016 Man Booker Prize"]. The Man Booker Prize.</ref><ref>Alexandra Alter, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/business/media/paul-beatty-wins-man-booker-prize-with-the-sellout.html "Paul Beatty Wins Man Booker Prize With ‘The Sellout’"], ''The New York Times'', 25 October 2016.</ref><ref>Tim Masters, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37770363 "Man Booker Prize: Paul Beatty becomes first US winner for The Sellout"], [[BBC News]], 26 October 2016.</ref> In 2019, ''[[An American Marriage]]'' by [[Tayari Jones]] won the [[Women's Prize for Fiction]],<ref>Alison Flood, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/womens-prize-for-fiction-tayari-jones-novel-an-american-marriage "Women's prize for fiction goes to 'utterly moving' Tayari Jones novel"], ''The Guardian'', 5 June 2019.</ref> and in 2022 Tess Gunty's ''[[The Rabbit Hutch]]'' won the inaugural Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/25/tess-gunty-the-rabbit-hutch-waterstones-debut-fiction-prize].

Further awards include the longlisting of ''A Cupboard Full of Coats'' by [[Yvvette Edwards]], a debut British novelist, in 2011 for the Man Booker Prize<ref>Tim Masters, [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14362415 "Booker longlist: Yvvette Edwards on A Cupboard Full of Coats"], BBC News, 2 August 2011.</ref> and was shortlisted in 2012 for the [[Commonwealth Book Prize]].<ref>Katie Allen, [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/oneworlds-edwards-shortlisted-commonwealth-book-prize "Oneworld's Edwards shortlisted for Commonwealth Book Prize"], ''[[The Bookseller]]'', 25 April 2012.</ref> ''Reasons She Goes to the Woods'' by [[Deborah Kay Davies]] was longlisted for the [[Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction]] in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for the [[Encore Award]] in 2015. Also in 2015, [[Diane Cook]]'s ''Man V. Nature'' was shortlisted for the [[Guardian First Book Award]], ''Ishmael's Oranges'' by Claire Hajaj was shortlisted for the [[Authors' Club First Novel Award]] and the [[Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize]]. In 2018 ''Grace'' by Paul Lynch won the [[Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year]], and was shortlisted for the [[Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction]] and the [[William Saroyan International Prize for Writing]], and the following year ''Orchid & the Wasp'' by [[Caoilinn Hughes]] won the [[Collyer Bristow Prize]] and was shortlisted for the [[Butler Literary Award]], and the [[Hearst Big Book Award]], and was longlisted for the [[Authors' Club Best First Novel Award]] and the [[International DUBLIN Literary Award]]. On the crime side, ''Lola'' by Melissa Scrivner Love won the Crime Writers' Association [[John Creasey New Blood Dagger]] in 2018 and in 2019, [[Syd Moore]] was shortlisted for the [[CWA Short Story Dagger]] with her story "Death Becomes Her", from the short-story collection ''The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas''. Also in 2019, Will Dean's ''Red Snow'', the second novel in his Tuva Moodyson Mystery series, won the [[Capital Crime/Amazon Publishing Readers' Independent Voice Award]].

On the translated fiction front, ''The Meursault Investigation'' — a multi-award winner in France — was longlisted for the ''FT'' Emerging Voices Award and was also shortlisted for the [[Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize]] (translated by John Cullen), along with ''Laurus'' by [[Eugene Vodolazkin]] (translated by Lisa Hayden). ''Laurus'' also won the Read Russia Translation Prize in 2016. ''Umami'' by [[Laia Jufresa]] (translated by Sophie Hughes) was shortlisted for the [[Best Translated Book Award]] in the US, and ''Masha Regina'' by Vadim Leventhal (translated by Lisa Hayden) was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2017, ''Fever Dream'' by Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell) was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, as was ''Frankenstein in Baghdad'' by Ahmed Saadawi in 2018 (translated by Jonathan Wright and winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction), which went on to win the Golden Tentatacle Kitschies Award for the year's most progressive, intelligent and entertaining works that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic, while Lisa Hayden's translation of ''Zuleikha'' by Guzel Yakhina was longlisted for the [[Warwick Prize for Women in Translation]] in 2019.

On the non-fiction side, Oneworld titles have received numerous prestigious prizes and nominations. In 2013, ''The Particle at the End of the Universe'' by Sean Carroll won the [[Royal Society Winton Prize]], for which [[Mary Roach]]'s ''Gulp'' was also shortlisted the following year; [[Greg Grandin]]'s ''The Empire of Necessity'' was shortlisted for the [[Samuel Johnson Prize]], while [[Serhii Plokhy]]'s ''The Last Empire'' won the [[Pushkin House (London)#Pushkin House Russian Book Prize|Pushkin House Russian Book Prize]] for 2015, and the same year saw a double shortlisting for the [[Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award|''FT''/McKinsey Business Book of the Year]] for ''The Rise of the Robots'' by [[Martin Ford (author)|Martin Ford]] and ''Unfinished Business'' by [[Anne-Marie Slaughter]] – and the prize was won by ''The Rise of the Robots''. In 2018, ''The Billionaire Raj'' by [[James Crabtree]] was shortlisted for the same award, and ''Black Tudors'' by [[Miranda Kaufmann]] was shortlisted for the [[Wolfson History Prize]] in 2018. In 2023, ''Show Me the Bodies'' by [[Peter Apps]] won the [[Orwell Prize]] for Political Writing.

Originally set up in Oxford,<ref>Charlotte Williams, [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/oneworld-publications-expands-london "Oneworld Publications expands into London"], ''The Bookseller'', 20 January 2011.</ref> Oneworld bought its first permanent office in [[Bloomsbury]], London, in 2012.

Oneworld now publishes around 80 titles a year, which are distributed worldwide by [[Random House]] (GBS) in the UK, by [[Simon & Schuster]] in the United States, by [[Bloomsbury Publishing]] in Australia, by [[Faber and Faber|Faber]] in Europe and the Middle East, by [[HarperCollins]] in India, by [[Jonathan Ball Publishers|Jonathan Ball]] in South Africa, and by a variety of regional distributors in Latin America and other territories.

===Imprints===
In 2015, Oneworld launched "Rock the Boat", a list of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults 0–19,<ref>Lisa Campbell, [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/oneworld-moves-ya-market-rock-boat "Oneworld moves into YA market with Rock the Boat"], ''The Bookseller'', 8 October 2014.</ref><ref>[https://www.rocktheboat.london/about-us/ "About"], Rock the Boat.</ref> and in 2016 launched a literary crime list, "Point Blank".<ref>Natasha Onwuemezi, [http://www.thebookseller.com/news/oneworld-launch-crime-imprint-called-point-blank-317945 "Oneworld creates new crime imprint Point Blank"], ''The Bookseller'', 8 December 2015.</ref><ref>[https://oneworld-publications.com/point-blank.html "Point Blank"] at Oneworld.</ref> In 2017, Oneworld set up Oneworld Academic. In 2021, Oneworld launched an upmarket bookclub fiction list, "Magpie".

==Awards==
In 2016, Oneworld won the Independent Publisher of the Year Award at the [[British Book Industry Awards]].<ref>John Dugdale, [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/may/12/british-book-industry-award-prizes-everyone "The British Book Industry awards: all must have prizes"], ''The Guardian'', 12 May 2016.</ref>

In March 2016, Oneworld also won the Ruth Killick Publicity Trade Publisher of the Year Award at the 2016 [[IPG Independent Publishing Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The 2016 Awards|url=http://www.ipg.uk.com/independent-publishing-awards/awards-2016|publisher=Independent Publishers Guild|access-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>

Oneworld received the Alison Morrison Diversity Award at the 2017 IPG Independent Publishing Awards.<ref>[http://www.ipg.uk.com/independent-publishing-awards "The 2017 IPG Independent Publishing Awards: winners"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603034650/http://www.ipg.uk.com/independent-publishing-awards |date=2019-06-03 }}, Independent Publishers Guild (IPG).</ref>

In May 2017, Juliet Mabey, publisher and co-founder of Oneworld, won the Editor of the Year Award at the British Book Industry Awards.<ref>[https://www.thebookseller.com/british-book-awards/winners/2017 The British Book Industry Awards 2017]. ''The Bookseller''</ref>

In 2023, Oneworld once again won the Independent Publisher of the Year Award at the [[British Book Awards]].<ref> [https://www.thebookseller.com/awards/the-british-book-awards?tab=independent-publisher-of-the-year].

== Notes ==

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== External links ==
*{{oweb|http://www.oneworld-publications.com}} of Oneworld Publication
*[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/15/oneworld-publisher-behind-man-booker-winners-juliet-mabey-novin-doostdar-interview Oneworld: the tiny publisher behind the last two Man Booker winners]
*[http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/publisher/oftheweek/name/oneworld-publications/ Oneworld Publisher of the Week at Book Depository]
*[http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/04/oneworld-life-in-publishing/ Oneworld, One Household: Publishing Perspectives Feature on Oneworld]
*[http://publishingperspectives.com/2011/08/booker-notoriety-sparks-rights-run-at-cinderella-indies/ Booker Longlist Focus on Oneworld]

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