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Ravi Mirchandani, former editor-in-chief at Atlantic Books, is to join Picador as associate publisher.
Mirchandani left Atlantic Books in January as part of the firm's restructure.
He had worked there for seven years and his commissioning included Man Booker Prize-winning The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, the Man Booker-shortlisted Snowdrops by A. D. Miller, as well as Christos Tsiolkas' hit The Slap among others.
Mirchandani will join Picador, Pan Macmillan's literary imprint, on 1st September and will report to Picador publisher Paul Baggaley.
Mirchandani began his career at Macmillan as a graduate recruit before moving to Penguin, and his career has included stints at Weidenfeld & Nicolson and William Heinemann.
He said: "I’m entirely delighted to be joining Picador, which has loomed large in my reading life since I was a teenage bookseller, and to be returning to Macmillan 30 years to the day after I first joined the company as a graduate recruit in 1984.
"It will also be splendid to be working with so many former colleagues from previous jobs, including both Paul and Jeremy [Trevathan], and with the wider Holtzbrinck world, from S. Fischer to Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I look forward to it hugely."
Baggaley said: "I am delighted to welcome Ravi to Picador. We first met early on in our careers and I was immediately struck by Ravi’s wonderful enthusiasm, his generosity to others and real collegiate spirit. He also has, of course, a brilliant eye and I have long admired his ability to produce landmark publications and publish bestsellers."
Pan Macmillan Adult Publisher, Jeremy Trevathan, said: "I’m very happy Ravi is joining the Picador team and the wider Macmillan family in the UK, USA, Germany, India, South Africa and Australia. His qualities and experience bring an extra international dimension to the well-established and highly regarded Picador editorial team."
This is the second high profile appointment Pan Macmillan has made in the last two weeks. Last month it announced Carole Tonkinson would leave HarperCollins to set up a new non-fiction imprint at Pan Macmillan.