Carmen Callil Husband: Was Carmen Callil Married?

Carmen Callil was an Australian publisher, writer, and critic who worked in the United Kingdom for the majority of her career.  Details about her marital status at the time of death are unknown.

Callil attended Star of the Sea Convent and Loreto Mandeville Hall before graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Literature.

Carmen Callil began as a campaigning outsider, establishing the feminist imprint Virago Press and publishing contemporary bestsellers such as Margaret Atwood, Maya Angelou, and Angela Carter.

She challenged the male-dominated canon of English literature by reprinting a number of modern classics by authors such as Antonia White, Willa Cather, and Rebecca West, eventually becoming a literary establishment pillar.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010, received the FRSL Benson Medal in 2017, and was made a dame the same year.

Carmen Callil died of leukemia on Monday, October 17, 2022, at the age of 84 in London. She is survived by her brother Julian. Another brother and a sister predeceased her.