| Peter Owen | |
| Honorific Suffix: | OBE |
| Birth Name: | Peter Offenstadt |
| Birth Date: | 24 February 1927 |
| Birth Place: | Nuremberg, Germany |
| Death Place: | London, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Publisher |
| Known For: | Founder of OBE |
Peter Owen OBE (24 February 1927 – 31 May 2016) was a British publisher, the founder of Peter Owen Publishers.[1] [2] [3]
He was born Peter Offenstadt in Nuremberg in 1927, with rickets, the only child of a German Jewish couple.[2] [3] His mother was Winifred Offenstadt.[2]
He was sent to live with his grandmother in England at the age of five, later to be joined by his parents, who were reluctant to leave Germany.[4]
In 1948, at the age of 21, Owen went into partnership with Neville Armstrong in a publishing enterprise called Peter Neville.[5] This lasted until 1955.[6] He went on to found Peter Owen Publishers in 1951.
He was awarded the OBE for services to literature in 2014.[7]
Owen's funeral instructions included, "no religious crap of any kind".[2]