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Tahsin quits Bloomsbury for W&N

11.12.07 Alison Flood

Arzu Tahsin is leaving Bloomsbury to take up the post of editorial director for fiction at Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Last month Bloomsbury made Tahsin editor-at-large; she was previously paperback publishing director at the publisher.

She will join W&N on 1st February 2008, initially for three days a week. She will report to fiction publishing director Kirsty Dunseath.

Tahsin's successes at Bloomsbury include Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, and Jim Lynch's The Highest Tide.

W&N deputy c.e.o. and group publisher Malcolm Edwards said: "As soon as we met Arzu, we knew she was the person we wanted, and I'm delighted she has agreed to join us. I'm confident we now have a team in place who will really accelerate the development of the W&N fiction list."

Dunseath added: "We are tremendously excited about this new appointment and Arzu will be a terrific asset to the W&N team. Her eye for a bestseller and the care and commitment she shows towards her books are hugely impressive and we are very much looking forward to working with her."

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