Caroline Michel,
Baroness Evans of Temple Guiting

FRSA
The Lady Evans of Temple Guiting (2013)
Born
Caroline Jayne Michel

(1959-04-04) 4 April 1959
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
NationalityBritish
Other namesLady Evans of Temple Guiting (courtesy style by marriage)
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (MA)
Occupation(s)Literary agent,
CEO Peters Fraser & Dunlop
Spouse
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(m. 1991; died 2016)​
Children3
RelativesBarry Cryer OBE
John Cryer MP

Caroline Jayne Michel (born 4 April 1959), formally styled Baroness Evans of Temple Guiting from 2000 but known professionally as Caroline Michel, is a British literary agent, who since 2015 serves as Chairwoman of the Hay Festival.[1]

Life and career

Michel attended Oakdene School in Buckinghamshire,[2] before going up to read Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh, graduating MA.[3]

Having started her career with Chatto & Windus in 1982, Michel was appointed managing director of literary magazine Granta in 1990, before joining publishers Random House (Vintage) in 1992, then HarperPress in 2001. After William Morris Agency poached her in 2005, Michel serves since 2007 as CEO of Peters Fraser & Dunlop.[4]

A committee member of the Booker Prize Foundation (1994–2001), the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award Panel (2011–19) and of HMG Advisory Panel on public library service in England (2014–15), she was appointed Chairwoman of the British Film Institute Trust in 2011. A Trustee of Somerset House (since 2013) and Vice-President of the London Library (since 2016), Michel has been elected a FRSA.[5]

Family

The daughter of Austro-Hungarian émigré Wolfgang Richard Max Michel (1928–2012)[6] and Valerie Gilbert Fooks née Cryer (b. 1934), who lives in Knightsbridge, London SW7, her younger brother is UAE-based arms dealer Christian Michel.[7]

In 1991 she married, as his second wife, Matthew Evans[8] (later Baron Evans of Temple Guiting); they had three children:
1. Tomas Evans (b. 1992)
2. Merlin Evans (b. 1994)
3. Mabel Evans (b. 1995).[9]

The year after her husband's death, she moved to live in Pimlico.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "www.hayfestival.com" (PDF).
  2. ↑ "Oakdene alumnæ, the Mitfords were good ol' High Wycombe gals". Bucks Free Press. March 8, 2001.
  3. ↑ www.theguardian.com
  4. ↑ www.petersfraserdunlop.com
  5. ↑ "The RSA - Royal Society of Arts". www.thersa.org.
  6. ↑ Ray, Saptarshi (January 12, 2019). "India 'swapped' British arms dealer for Dubai's Princess Latifa". The Sunday Telegraph – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  7. ↑ "Michel's family lives in multi-million pound mansion in London; their charity now under investigation". The Times of India. December 21, 2018.
  8. ↑ Brown, Mark; correspondent, Mark Brown Arts (July 6, 2016). "Publisher Matthew Evans, former Faber and Faber boss, dies aged 74". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ "Burke's Peerage & Baronetage". burkespeerage.com.
  10. ↑ www.houseandgarden.co.uk
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