Georgia de Chamberet

Career

Georgia de Chamberet (born 1964, Paris) is a writer and translator with extensive experience in independent publishing. She served as Senior Editor at Quartet Books from 1988 to 1996, collaborating with notable figures like Anthony Blond and publishing authors such as Tahar Ben Jelloun and Daniel Pennac. Notable publications include "The Death of Napoleon" by Simon Leys, which won the 1992 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.

In 1997, she founded BookBlast Ltd, a writing agency based in West London to promote new or overlooked writers. Early successes include "Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain" and "XCiTés: the Flamingo Book of New French Writing." Chamberet was also a founding member of English PEN's Writers in Translation committee and launched the BookBlast Celebrates Independent Publishing initiative in 2016.

Chamberet is the literary executor of her godmother, historian and traveler Lesley Blanch. She edited Blanch's memoirs, "On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life," published in 2015 and 2018. She has also written articles for 3:AM Magazine and was a columnist for Words Without Borders.

Translations

• 2012 – Thinking Inside the Box by Louis Saha (Vision Sports)
• 2018 – A Call for Revolution by The Dalai Lama (Rider)
• 2020 – The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel by Olivier Guez (Verso). Prix Renaudot 2017.

External links

• Georgia de Chamberet and BookBlast at the Digital Bodleian Library [1]
• Literary Executor, Estate of Lesley Blanch [2]
• Lesley Blanch, Regency England undressed: Harriette Wilson, the greatest courtesan of her age [3]
• Verso Books [4]
• BookBlast celebrates independent publishing [5]
• The BookBlast 10×10 Tour: A Celebration of Independent Publishing [6]
• Amazon (company) [7]

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