Simon Prosser is Publishing Director of Hamish Hamilton & Penguin Books, where his list of authors includes Zadie Smith, Mohsin Hamid, Ali Smith, Jamil Ahmad, Vikram Seth, Jonathan Safran Foer, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, John Updike, David Foster Wallace, Paul Murray, Javier Marias, W.G. Sebald, Noam Chomsky and Susan Sontag.
Simon is a founder and Co-Director of the annual Port Eliot Festival, and the publisher of the literary magazine Five Dials. He is also a Trustee of the Civil Liberties Trust.