Oak Tree Press
Encyclopedia
Oak Tree Fine Press is a small not-for-profit publishing
house set up with the assistance of Nobel Laureate John Maxwell Coetzee
. It publishes limited edition hand bound signed books featuring the work of world leading authors and artists.
All proceeds from the sales of books by Oak Tree Fine Press are targeted at organizations which offer support to the child victims of the Africa
n HIV
/AIDS
crisis.
Oak Tree Press was founded in 2005 and is based in Oxfordshire
, UK
. It is primarily a volunteer organisation.
, Nadine Gordimer
, Barry Unsworth
, Margaret Atwood
, A. S. Byatt
, Alan Hollinghurst
, Salman Rushdie, Yoko Ono
, Gilbert & George, Cyril Coetzee, Ezekiel Mabote, Colbert Mashile and Jo Ractliffe.
, Günter Grass
and Toni Morrison (forthcoming).
The first collection was the First Chapter Series, a contribution by some of the world’s most prominent authors towards this cause. Each volume in this series features the opening chapters of prize winning fiction alongside specially commissioned artwork inspired by the novel. With the generous support of prominent authors around the world, they now offer a range of books incorporating some of the most significant works of modern literary fiction. General titles are also published.
Publishing
Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of literature or information—the activity of making information available to the general public...
house set up with the assistance of Nobel Laureate John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee
John Maxwell Coetzee ; is an author and academic from South Africa. He is now an Australian citizen and lives in Adelaide, South Australia...
. It publishes limited edition hand bound signed books featuring the work of world leading authors and artists.
All proceeds from the sales of books by Oak Tree Fine Press are targeted at organizations which offer support to the child victims of the Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
n HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
/AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
crisis.
Oak Tree Press was founded in 2005 and is based in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a county in the South East region of England, bordering on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Gloucestershire ....
, UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. It is primarily a volunteer organisation.
The First Chapter Series (Booker Prize)
This Series is a collaboration between Booker Prize winning writers and high profile artists to raise money for organizations offering care and support to AIDS orphans and victims in Africa. Each volume features the opening chapters of a Booker Prize winning novel, accompanied by original artwork inspired by the novel. Current contributors include J M Coetzee, Stanley MiddletonStanley Middleton
Stanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist. He was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire and educated at High Pavement School, Stanley Road, Nottingham and University College Nottingham....
, Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
, Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth
Barry Unsworth is a British novelist who is known for novels with historical themes. He has published 15 novels, and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times, winning once for the 1992 novel Sacred Hunger....
, Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
, A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, DBE is an English novelist, poet and Booker Prize winner...
, Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst
Alan Hollinghurst is a British novelist, and winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty.-Biography:Hollinghurst was born on 26 May 1954 in Stroud, Gloucestershire, the only child of James Hollinghurst, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth...
, Salman Rushdie, Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono
is a Japanese artist, musician, author and peace activist, known for her work in avant-garde art, music and filmmaking as well as her marriage to John Lennon...
, Gilbert & George, Cyril Coetzee, Ezekiel Mabote, Colbert Mashile and Jo Ractliffe.
Nobel Lectures
Featuring the lectures of Doris LessingDoris Lessing
Doris May Lessing CH is a British writer. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook, and five novels collectively known as Canopus in Argos....
, Günter Grass
Günter Grass
Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...
and Toni Morrison (forthcoming).
Current day use
Oak Tree Fine Press is a privately owned publishing company based in Oxfordshire, England. They specialize in exceptionally high quality books featuring work by the world’s greatest authors and artists. All profits from the sales of all our books go to organisations assisting children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS.The first collection was the First Chapter Series, a contribution by some of the world’s most prominent authors towards this cause. Each volume in this series features the opening chapters of prize winning fiction alongside specially commissioned artwork inspired by the novel. With the generous support of prominent authors around the world, they now offer a range of books incorporating some of the most significant works of modern literary fiction. General titles are also published.