Ernest Hecht

Ernest Hecht OBE is a British publisher, producer, and philanthropist. He is the founder , owner and managing director of Souvenir Press Ltd, the last remaining independently owned major publishing house in Great Britain. In 2003 he set up the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation. Described by The Bookseller as one of a number of migrs who changed the face of British publishing after the Second World War alongside George Weidenfeld, Paul Hamlyn and Andr Deutsch, Hecht was awarded an OBE in the Queens Birthday Honours List for services to Publishing and Charity in June 2015. In August 2015, he was honoured by the President of Brazil with the Order of Rio Branco, which was presented to him at a ceremony by the Brazilian Ambassador in London.

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