Winner of the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize announced
Kathy Rooney, Managing Director of Bloomsbury Publishing, has been awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which honours outstanding achievements by women in publishing.
Kathy Rooney was chosen from a shortlist which included Lennie Goodings, Publisher of Virago Press and Alison Samuels, Publishing Director of Chatto and Windus.
She was presented with a cheque for £3,000 at a ceremony at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
Francine Stock, of the Kim Scott Walwyn committee, commented: “The judges were impressed by the outstanding trio of women on the shortlist. Each candidate demonstrated exceptional professionalism, talent and steadfast commitment to one particular organisation. Kathy Rooney’s determination, initiative, and resolve to acquire new acquisitions made her a thoroughly worthy winner of this year’s prize.”
The prize committee is Professor Dame Gillian Beer DBE, FBA, FRSL (King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge); Catherine Clarke (Literary Agent, Felicity Bryan Agency); Denise Johnstone-Burt (Publisher at Walker Books); Kate Jury (student, Landscape Architecture); Hermione Lee CBE (biographer, English Literature Professor and President of Wolfson College Oxford); Fiona Maddocks (Chief Music Critic, The Observer); Sarah O’Brien (legal worker); and Francine Stock (novelist and broadcaster).
The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize was awarded in 2004 to Lynette Owen, Copyright Director of Pearson Education Ltd, in 2005 to Penelope Hoare, Deputy Publishing Director of Chatto and Windus, in 2007 to Annette Thomas, Managing Director of Nature Publishing, now CEO of Macmillan, and in 2008 to the literary agent Clare Alexander.
The prize is administered by Booktrust, the independent charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to engage with books.
Kathy Rooney, Managing Director of Bloomsbury Publishing, has been awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which honours outstanding achievements by women in publishing.
Kathy Rooney was chosen from a shortlist which included Lennie Goodings, Publisher of Virago Press and Alison Samuels, Publishing Director of Chatto and Windus.
She was presented with a cheque for £3,000 at a ceremony at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
Francine Stock, of the Kim Scott Walwyn committee, commented: “The judges were impressed by the outstanding trio of women on the shortlist. Each candidate demonstrated exceptional professionalism, talent and steadfast commitment to one particular organisation. Kathy Rooney’s determination, initiative, and resolve to acquire new acquisitions made her a thoroughly worthy winner of this year’s prize.”
The prize committee is Professor Dame Gillian Beer DBE, FBA, FRSL (King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge); Catherine Clarke (Literary Agent, Felicity Bryan Agency); Denise Johnstone-Burt (Publisher at Walker Books); Kate Jury (student, Landscape Architecture); Hermione Lee CBE (biographer, English Literature Professor and President of Wolfson College Oxford); Fiona Maddocks (Chief Music Critic, The Observer); Sarah O’Brien (legal worker); and Francine Stock (novelist and broadcaster).
The Kim Scott Walwyn Prize was awarded in 2004 to Lynette Owen, Copyright Director of Pearson Education Ltd, in 2005 to Penelope Hoare, Deputy Publishing Director of Chatto and Windus, in 2007 to Annette Thomas, Managing Director of Nature Publishing, now CEO of Macmillan, and in 2008 to the literary agent Clare Alexander.
The prize is administered by Booktrust, the independent charity dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and cultures to engage with books.
Kathy Rooney
Kathy Rooney began her career as an editor of the Collins German Dictionary with William Collins and Sons Ltd. After working at
Quarto and Longman, she joined Bloomsbury in 1987. Her major reference projects include Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary, which now powers the spell-check in MS Word, Macmillan English Dictionary (2002), BUSINESS – The Ultimate Resource (2002) which was published in eight languages and QFinance, an information portal for finance professionals.
From 2005-8 Rooney was in charge of Bloomsbury’s German subsidiary, Berlin Verlag, which publishes fiction, non-fiction and children’s books in hardback and paperback. Rooney is currently a director of Bloomsbury PLC.
Kathy Rooney began her career as an editor of the Collins German Dictionary with William Collins and Sons Ltd. After working at
Quarto and Longman, she joined Bloomsbury in 1987. Her major reference projects include Microsoft Encarta World English Dictionary, which now powers the spell-check in MS Word, Macmillan English Dictionary (2002), BUSINESS – The Ultimate Resource (2002) which was published in eight languages and QFinance, an information portal for finance professionals.From 2005-8 Rooney was in charge of Bloomsbury’s German subsidiary, Berlin Verlag, which publishes fiction, non-fiction and children’s books in hardback and paperback. Rooney is currently a director of Bloomsbury PLC.
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