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Rex Collings (18 June 1925 – 23 May 1996) was an English publisher who specialized in books relating to Africa and children's books. He ensured the publication of Wole Soyinka's plays, and was the first to publish Watership Down (1972) by Richard Adams.
Rex Alan Collinge MBE (born 23 April 1935) is an English former first-class cricketer and Royal Air Force officer. Collinge served in the Royal Air Force from 1954 to 1985, rising to the rank of wing commander and being made an MBE in the 1979 Birthday Honours.
Watership Down is an adventure novel by English author Richard Adams, published by Rex Collings Ltd of London in 1972. Set in Hampshire in southern England, the story features a small group of rabbits.
La colina de Watership fue la novela debut de Richard Adams. Fue rechazada por varios editores antes de que Rex Collings aceptara el manuscrito; el libro ganó la Medalla Carnegie, el Premio Guardian y otros galardones literarios. El director de cine Martin Rosen la convirtió en una película de animación en 1978.
Rex Collings was one of the earliest pub lishers to set out to provide paperback books for Africa on serious subjects at the time in the late fifties and early sixties, when African countries were coming to independence.
5 de may. de 2015 · Rex Collings, the intrepid publisher who took a chance on the then-unknown Adams, was the first to suggest calling the novel Watership Down.
Gustav Rex Collings, publisher: born 18 June 1925; died Hitchin, Hertfordshire 23 May 1996.
