
Fred Newman, co-founder with the late Clive Labovitch of Publishing News and the British Book Awards, has died aged 76 after a brutal battle with cancer, which he bore with stoicism and dignity.
Charismatic, iconoclastic, Fred was a man of contradictions who much enjoyed his three decades around the book trade yet was never fully a part of it, though there was a handful of publishers and authors with whom he would occasionally socialise. Indeed, he was probably happiest in an outsider’s role, an observer by inclination and training.
An only child, born Manfred Neumann in Vienna, on 13 October 1932, he came to England with his parents around the time of the Anschluss, his mother having bribed a guard to effect his father’s escape from Dachau.
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