Andrew Kidd
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Andrew Kidd is the current CEO of the Arvon Foundation.[1][2] He is also the Co-Founder and current Chair of the Folio Prize|Rathbone Folio Prize.[3][4]
Career
Kidd has held previous positions as Editorial Director of Penguin Books, Publisher of Picador (imprint) and Macmillan[5] and the Managing Director of Aitken Alexander Associates Ltd.[6] The Independent stated that Picador was ""revitalised under Andrew Kidd" - formerly of Penguin."[7] In 2016, Kidd co-founded Alexi Books.[8] [9] A digital reading platform that "aims to free readers from 'algorithm rabbit hole'" as stated in the Guardian. [10]
In 2015, the Evening Standard Evening Standard named Kidd on the Progress 1000, a list of London's most influential people.[11][12] In 2014 Kidd was nominated and was one of the winners of the H.Club 100, an award for the most influential people in the UK's creative industries.[13] Kidd also made it onto the The Bookseller 100 most influential people in the literary industry, being credited in the Bookseller as "the driving force behind the biggest, splashiest book prize launch in decades". [14] Kidd has published authors such as John Updike, Matthew Kneale, Deborah Eisenberg, Jonathan Safran Foer, Edward St Aubyn, Carol Ann Duffy, Jim Crace, Bret Easton Ellis, Jackie Kay, Alan Hollinghurst, Cormac McCarthy and John Banville.[15]
References
- ↑ "Arvon appoints Andrew Kidd as Chief Executive and Artistic Director". Arvon. 11 February 2019.
- ↑ "Kidd succeeds Borthwick as head of Arvon | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Folio Prize seeks to make mark on literary landscape". BBC News. 13 March 2013.
- ↑ Kidd, Andrew (14 March 2013). "Why we need the Folio prize for fiction". the Guardian.
- ↑ "Andrew Kidd to head Picador | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Kidd departs Aitken Alexander for 'new venture' | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Cover Stories: Graham Swift; Ravi Mirchandani". The Independent. 1 April 2009.
- ↑ Creative, Venn (13 January 2017). "Alexi: the app that handpicks books for you". The Literary Platform.
- ↑ "Andrew Kidd reveals Alexi reading app | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Book-choice app Alexi aims to free readers from 'algorithm rabbit hole'". the Guardian. 6 December 2016.
- ↑ "The Progress 1000: London's most influential people 2015 - Literati". www.standard.co.uk. 17 September 2015.
- ↑ "Ridout, Blair and Kidd make London's 'most influential' list | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Nominations open for h.Club 100 awards | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "The Bookseller 100 | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com.
- ↑ "Andrew Kidd – Boundless".
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