Juliet Mabey is the co-founder of Oneworld Publications, an award-winning independent publisher focusing on narrative non-fiction, literary fiction, crime fiction and children’s titles. In 2009 Juliet set up Oneworld’s fiction list, and two of her titles have won the Booker Prize, with Marlon James’ A Brief History of Seven Killings winning in 2015 and Paul Beatty’s The Sellout in 2016, while Tayari Jones’ An American Marriage, won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2019.
A large part of her list consists of translated fiction from over twenty languages, and two of her novels in translation were shortlisted for the Booker International Prize, Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell) and Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (translated from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright). Oneworld places a strong emphasis on showcasing a rich diversity of voices and stories from around the world, in English and in translation, for both its adult and children’s lists.