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Nicole Winstanley has been named president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Canada, effective April 11, and will be a member of S&S's executive committee. She was most recently publisher of Penguin Canada and v-p of Penguin Random House Canada. She first joined Penguin Canada in 2006 as a senior editor and was made publisher in 2010 and president and publisher in 2012. She was named v-p of Penguin Random House Canada in 2015. Prior to joining Penguin Canada, she served as director of international rights at Westwood Creative Artists Literary Agency.
S&S president & CEO Jonathan Karp called Winstanley "one of the most highly regarded publishers at work in Canada. Nicole's reputation for excellence, her commitment to authors, and her keen editorial eye will help us become an even greater force throughout Canada and all of the territories in which we publish. We are thrilled to be welcoming Nicole to our executive leadership team and committed to her vision of publishing an even broader range of books in Canada--works of great popular interest and high literary quality."
Karp added: "Simon & Schuster Canada plays a vital role in both our North American publishing strategy and as a member of our international family of companies. Our Canadian colleagues are an outstanding group of publishing professionals who have achieved considerable success in their marketplace for both Canadian-originated titles and books from their fellow Simon & Schuster companies. We can look forward to seeing them build on that success under Nicole's leadership."
Winstanley said she has been "enormously impressed" by S&S Canada's "significant impact on the Canadian publishing landscape in a relatively short period of time. I look forward to building on that success and to working closely with Jon Karp, whom I have long admired, and the rest of the Simon & Schuster team." She added, "I feel fortunate to have worked with some of the most outstanding editorial talents during my time at Penguin Canada, and I will always be grateful for all they taught me and the books we published together, which I will continue to cherish and celebrate."
During her time at Penguin, Winstanley published a strong list of Canadian books and authors, including Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley, Bunny by Mona Awad, The Strangers by katherena vermette, The Maid by Nita Prose, The Push by Ashley Audrain, Two Trees Make a Forest by Jessica J. Lee, and numerous works by bestselling author Guy Gavriel Kay. She also published such international authors as Arundhati Roy, Zadie Smith, Khaled Hosseini, NoViolet Bulawayo, Sarah Winman, Helen Oyeyemi, Stieg Larsson, Deborah Levy, John le Carré, Aleksandar Hemon, and Ali Smith.