Ernest Hecht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernest Hecht

Publisher, producer

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1929

Place of Birth: Czechoslovakia

Date of Death: 13-Feb-2018

Profession: publisher

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ernest Hecht (21 September 1929 – 13 February 2018) was a British publisher, producer, and philanthropist.
In 1951, he founded 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 émigrés who changed the face of British publishing after the Second World War alongside George Weidenfeld, Paul Hamlyn and André Deutsch", Hecht has been called "the last of the great publishers".
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's 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 Hecht at a ceremony by the Brazilian Ambassador in London.