Faber is one of the greatest independent publishing houses in the world. Poetry has been at the heart of the business' publishing since its founding in 1929, and T. S. Eliot was the business's first poetry editor. In every generation, Faber seeks the best writers, the business is proud to publish the most important voices in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, film and children's books, the business has published 13 Nobel Prize winners and six Man Booker winners, most recently Kazuo Ishiguro and Anna Burns. At The Merchant, the Merchant believes in the unique power of published words to change, inspire and challenge. This informs all of the merchant's internal activities and extends to the merchant's outreach and partnerships in independent publishing.