About Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus. The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and children’s books.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including numerous National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and twenty-one Nobel Prizes in literature. Nobel Prize–winners include:
- Knut Hamsun
- Hermann Hesse
- T. S. Eliot
- Pär Lagerkvist
- François Mauriac
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Salvatore Quasimodo
- Nelly Sachs
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Pablo Neruda
- Eugenio Montale
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Czeslaw Milosz
- Elias Canetti
- William Golding
- Wole Soyinka
- Joseph Brodsky
- Camilo José Cela
- Nadine Gordimer
- Derek Walcott
- Seamus Heaney
Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list, which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from Elizabeth Bishop, Ted Hughes
, and Philip Larkin
to John Ashbery
, Thom Gunn
, and Les Murray
.
Fiction has an even greater international reach, distinguished by:
- Rosellen Brown
- Jim Crace
- Michael Cunningham
- Jonathan Franzen
- Carlos Fuentes
- Peter Høeg
- Jamaica Kincaid
- Bernard Malamud
- Alice McDermott
- Péter Nádas
- Flannery O’Connor
- Walker Percy
- Richard Powers
- Susan Sontag
- Scott Turow
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Tom Wolfe
- Lois-Ann Yamanaka
History, Art History, Natural History, Current Affairs and Science round out a strong list in nonfiction represented by:
- Thomas Friedman
- Philip Gourevitch
- Roy Jenkins
- Gina Kolata
- Ben Macintyre
- Louis Menand
- Giles Milton
- John McPhee
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