Tundra Books/Les Livres Toundra was founded in Montreal by May Ebbitt Cutler in 1967, as an independent publishing house. Under Ms. Cutler's dynamic leadership, the Tundra imprint became synonymous with children's books publishing, featuring titles such as William Kurelek's A Prairie Boy's Winter, Ann Blade's Mary of Mile 18, Roch Carrier's Le chandail de hockey and Joan Finnegan's Look! The Land is Growing Giants, A Very Canadian Legend, with drawings by Richard Pelham. From 1971 to 1978, May Cutler operated an American branch of Tundra in Plattsburgh, New York for distribution purposes to the United States. In the thirty years of the company's existence, and until its sale in December of 1995 to McClelland and Stewart, May Cutler sought and published talented artists and authors from the most diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Today, McClelland and Stewart operates the company as a separate entity, producing and marketing books under the Tundra imprint.
Dimitar Tsokov, a.k.a. Dimitar Cokov, was born in 1865 in Svishtov, Bulgaria.
He was a scholar, linguist, diplomat, and Professor of History at the University of Sofia (1893). In 1884, he was one of the founders of a cultural centre Chitalishte "Hristo Botev 1884" (Bulgarian: Читалище "Христо Ботев 1884"), in the town of Botevgrad in western Bulgaria. The centre distributed books, newspapers and magazines and organized readings and lectures. Tsokov served as the first Bulgarian diplomatic agent in London from 1903 to 1907 and Bulgarian Minister plenipotentiary in London from 1911 to 1913. He was the first Bulgarian member of the International Olympic Committee from 1906 to 1912.
He died in 1928 in London, England.
