David Fickling is an
English children's book editor and publisher based in Oxford. Fickling runs David Fickling Books, which became an independent publishing house in July 2013. He has published books by authors including
Philip Pullman,
Mark Haddon,
John Boyne and
Linda Newbery.
He began his career at the
Oxford University Press, and later worked at
Transworld and
Scholastic, before setting up
David Fickling Books in 2000, first as an imprint with Scholastic then under
Random House.[1] It has since become an independent publishing house, working in partnership with larger publishers.[2][3]
In 2004, Fickling won the British Book Awards Editor of the Year.[4]
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abjoint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft,
Axel Springer AG, Burda, Studio Gong, m.b.t. Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft.
^joint venture with Axel Springer, Heinrich Bauer Verlag, Lühmanndruck Harburger Zeitungsgesellschaft and Morgenpost Verlag.