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Published by Anders Frejdh: 5-9-2012

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5 SEPTEMBER 2012
PETER JANSON-SMITH'S 90TH BIRTHDAY
Peter Janson-Smith - Ian Fleming's literary agent - celebrates his 90th birthday today. (Coincidentally the same date as James Bond actor George Lazenby was born.)

Peter Janson-Smith is one of the reasons why Ian Fleming and James Bond became a phenomenon. Janson-Smith was Fleming’s literary agent and saw the future in global publishing.

Thanks to his efforts, Fleming was read around the world.

When the films were eventually made, there was a hungry global audience waiting to pounce on 007. As Chairman of Glidrose Publications Ltd (now Ian Fleming Publications), the literary copyright holders of Bond, Janson-Smith oversaw the continuation authors who wrote authorized Bond novels after Fleming died in 1964.

Kingsley Amis, a famous British writer, took on the challenge and wrote Colonel Sun (1968) (under the pen-name, Robert Markham) in 1968.

In 1973, John Pearson, Fleming’s biographer, wrote 007: The authorized biography: A fictional life of James Bond.

In 1981, John Gardner became the new Bond author, hand-picked by Janson-Smith. Gardner wrote a Bond novel a year for 16 years until famed Bond scholar, American Raymond Benson took over in 1997 with Zero Minus Ten (1997).

Janson-Smith retired from the literary side of things but is a legend in the publishing industry. Ensuring Bond was translated into over 40 languages and steering post-Fleming Bond novels, he kept 007 on the bookshelves.

As successful as the films are, never forget that Bond started on the printed page. The roaring success of Daniel Craig as Ian Fleming’s James Bond in Casino Royale (2006) was due, in no small part, to the classic yet unusual novel the film is faithfully based on.

Peter Janson-Smith helped Fleming shepherd Bond to cultural immortality and is still very much involved in the legacy of the famed author as President of The Ian Fleming Foundation.

Birthdays for James Bond related people profiled on From Sweden With Love:
>Anne Lönnberg: February 17
>Barbara Broccoli: June 18
>Britt Ekland: October 6
>Caroline Munro: January 16
>Charlie Higson: July 3
>Christopher Lee: May 27
>Daniel Craig: March 3
>David Arnold: January 23
>David Hedison: May 20
>Dolph Lundgren: November 3
>Eva Green: July 5
>George Lazenby: September 5
>George Leech: December 6
>Gloria Hendry: March 3
>Guy Hamilton: September 16
>Ian Fleming: May 28
>Izabella Scorupco: June 4
>Jane Seymour: February 15
>John Glen: May 15
>John Moreno: March 4
>Ken Adam: February 5
>Kristina Wayborn: September 24
>Lana Wood: April 15
>Lars Lundgren: May 6
>Lewis Gilbert: March 6
>Lois Chiles: April 15
>Margaret Nolan: October 29
>Martin Campbell: October 24
>Martine Beswicke: September 26
>Mary Stavin: August 20
>Maryam d'Abo: December 27
>Maud Adams: February 12
>Max von Sydow: April 10
>Michael G. Wilson: January 21
>Neal Purvis: September 9
>Norman Wanstall: September 30
>Ola Rapace: December 3
>Peter Lamont: November 12
>Pierce Brosnan: May 16
>Rachel Grant: November 25
>Raymond Benson: September 6
>Richard Kiel: September 13
>Robert Davi: June 26
>Roger Moore: October 14
>Sean Connery: August 25
>Shane Rimmer: May 28
>Shirley Bassey: January 8
>Talisa Soto: March 27
>Tanya Roberts: October 15
>Timothy Dalton: March 21
>Trina Parks: December 26
>Valerie Leon: November 12
>Willy Bogner Jr: January 23

Photo below:
Raymond Benson and Doug Redenius with Peter Jansson-Smith at Adrian Harrington Books in London.

Read James Bond continuation author Raymond Benson's interview with Janson-Smith from the March-April 2010 issue of Crimespree Magazine thanks to our friends over at CommanderBond:
commanderbond.net
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