She was a Member of the Committee for The Booker Prize, 1979–1984; a founder Director of The Groucho Club, London, 1984–1994 and in 1989 received the Distinguished Service Award from the International Women's Writing Guild.
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Callil left book publishing in 1994, and for some years divided her time between London and Caunes-Minervois in France.
He has also achieved a reputation as a literary critic: he has edited a book on Paul Durcan, The Kilfenora Teaboy (1997); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); and has written The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 (1999), with Carmen Callil; a collection of essays, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar (2002); and a study on Lady Gregory, Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002).
Virago is a British publishing company founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil, primarily to publish books by women writers.
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