Which feminist book label was established by Carmen Callil and others in 1973?
Carmen Callil Carmen Callil Dame Carmen Thérèse Callil, (born 15 July 1938) is an Australian publisher, writer and critic who has spent most of her career in the United Kingdom. She founded Virago Press in 1973. Callil was born in Melbourne, Australia, but has lived in London since 1960. Her widowed mother Lorraine Clare Allen, raised four children, of whom Callil was the third. Her father, Frederick Alfred Louis Callil, was a barrister and lecturer in French at the University of Melbourne. She was educated at Star of the Sea Convent, and at Loreto Mandeville Hall. She graduated from the University of
Carmen Callil from the International Women's Writing Guild. She is a Doctor of Letters from Sheffield University, the University of York, Oxford Brookes University and the Open University. She has also been a judge of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Orwell Prize. She was chairman of judges, Booker Prize for Fiction, in 1996. Callil was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010, and in 2017 was honoured with their Benson Medal. She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours (UK) for services to literature. Carmen