Christopher MacLehose

Christopher Colin MacLehose CBE (born 1940) is a British publisher who in 2008 founded the MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus Books, having previously been notable as publisher of Harvill Press (from 1984 to 2004), where his successes included bringing out the stories of Raymond Carver and Richard Ford for the first time in Britain. Having published influential works translated from more than 34 languages, MacLehose has been referred to as "the champion of translated fiction" and as "British publishing's doyen of literature in translation". He is generally credited with having introduced to an English-speaking readership the late bestselling Swedish author Stieg Larsson and other prize-winning authors, among them Sergio De La Pava, who has described MacLehose as "an outsize figure literally and figuratively – that's an individual who has devoted his life to literature".