Martin Pick

Martin Pick

Martin Pick, our Chairman, is a former publisher (OUP, Longman, Macmillan and his own company, Belitha Press) and owns Charles Pick Consultancy (CPC), which was founded by his father, where he is also Executive Chairman. He is the literary and film agent for Wilbur Smith.

Martin worked for five years in India and Pakistan for OUP, and  as an educational and children’s book publisher for 27 years. He was a TV producer and has been a literary agent for 16 years.  For 25 years he was a school governor in London. He was a Council member of Minority Rights Group International; Chair of City and Hackney Mind (the mental health charity); and is currently a trustee of Peace Child International, which provides opportunities for young people to change the world they inhabit. He is now on the Advisory Committee for the British Library’s ‘Authors’ Lives’ project, which records interviews with the UK’s most influential authors.

He co-founded the Charles Pick Fellowship at the University of East Anglia in 2001 (with Wilbur Smith and Macmillan) in memory of his father. Fellows have included Brian Chikwava (HARARE NORTH, Cape) and Luke Williams (THE ECHO CHAMBER, Hamish Hamilton). In 2012 the CPF will offer a South Asian Fellowship.

Martin also organizes literary events in association with Jon Cook, former Chair of Creative Writing at UEA, at the Savile Club in London.