Our Story
Read about the Faber story, find out about our unique partnerships, and learn more about our publishing heritage, awards and present-day activity.
Faber is one of the world’s great independent publishing houses. Since we were founded in 1929, poetry has been at the heart of our publishing, with T. S. Eliot as our first Poetry Editor.
In every generation, Faber has sought to find the very best writers and we are proud to publish the foremost voices in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, film and children’s books, from writers including Sylvia Plath, Samuel Beckett, Ted Hughes, William Golding, Kae Tempest, Seamus Heaney, P. D. James, Natalie Diaz, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Alan Bennett, Edna O’Brien, Simon Armitage, Emma Carroll and Sally Rooney. Thirteen Nobel Laureates and six Booker Prize-winners have been published by Faber, with awards most recently for Kazuo Ishiguro and Anna Burns.
At Faber, we share a belief in the unique power of the published word to transform, to inspire and to challenge. This informs all our in-house activities and extends to our outreach and our partnerships within independent publishing.
Our Partnerships
Faber is proud to be part of a network of independent publishers and to work with innovative partners to find new ways to promote great writing across the world.
Independent Alliance
Faber Factory
Prizes and Awards
Every child deserves to see themselves in books, and in the authors and illustrators whose work they read. The FAB Prize aims to discover and showcase new talent, closing the gap between what is currently published and the reality for many families.
Are you an aspiring graphic novelist? Do you have an original story to tell? Faber and Comica have got together with the Observer to offer you the chance to see your work in print and win £1,000.
In 2024, Faber launched the Action! Prize with Film & TV Producer Eddie Gamarra in direct response to research from the National Literacy Trust that revealed children’s reading enjoyment was at its lowest level in almost two decades.
At Faber we believe in the unique power of human creativity and imagination, and our job as publisher is to find and amplify the very best that the human mind can create, through the written word. Our Faber colophon represents this human written provenance.
We are keeping abreast of AI developments and considering where the technology might be used constructively. We are taking a careful approach and are mindful of the environmental and ethical cost of its use.