Publishers & other book people honoured by Queen in her Birthday Honours in the UK

The Bookseller 

Bloomsbury’s Bill Swainson [pictured], Souvenir Press m.d. Ernest Hecht, Nature Publishing Group's Dr Philip Campbell and Paddington creator Michael Bond are among the book industry figures named in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Campbell, editor in chief of NPG's flagship journal Nature, is given a knighthood for services to science.

Swainson, who will leave his role as senior commissioning editor at the end of this month as part of a restructure at Bloomsbury, has been made an OBE for services to literary translation. Hecht is also made an OBE for services to publishing and to charity.
Bond is made a CBE for services to children’s literature. The author, who was made an OBE in 1997, released his published the first Paddington book, A Bear Called Paddington, in 1958. The latest in the series, Love From Paddington, was released last year by HarperCollins Children’s Books, and a film featuring the character was also released in 2014.

Other authors honoured include Karen Armstrong, whose books include Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence (Bodley Head), is made an OBE for services to literature and interfaith dialogue. Author and illustrator Francis Paterson is made a MBE for services to children’s literature. Philippa Langley, who discovered King Richard III’s remains in Leicester in 2012 and who co-authored The King’s Grave: The Search for Richard III (John Murray) with Michael Jones, is made an MBE.