Simon Smith is senior editor and rights manager at Peter Owen, a long-established independent publisher known primarily for its literary-fiction list, much of it in translation, that includes such internationally acclaimed authors as Blaise Cendrars, Shusaku Endo, Anna Kavan, Hermann Hesse, Quim Monzó, Yukio Mishima, Arto Paasilinna, Cesare Pavese and Tarjei Vesaas. He has a particular interest in international fiction and has introduced authors from many countries to the Peter Owen list. He also works as a publishers’ freelance.