A Flag on the Island is dedicated to which British literary editor?
Diana Athill Diana Athill {'1': ", '2': ", '3': 'OBE', '4': "} (born 21 December 1917) is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the greatest writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd.
Ian McKay (writer) Ian McKay (born 1962) is an English environmental writer, critic, publisher, and translator. A former editor of "Contemporary Art" magazine, and the founder-editor of "The Journal of Geography and Urban Research", throughout the 1990s he was best-known for his writings on the arts of Eastern Europe, being cited as the first British art critic to emphasize the negative impact of the western art market in that region. Throughout the 1990s and early-2000s, he was a contributor to a wide range of art journals, as well as writing on subjects relating to photography, cinema, and music. Since 2007 his publishing activities have mainly centred on UK Rural Affairs, and the environment however. Though periodically he continues to publish works of art criticism, his most recent publications concern social justice in rural Britain, as well as environmental conservation in the wider European sphere. He has also worked as an academic in several UK universities.