Aschehoug Publishing House

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H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) AS
legal form AS
founding 1872
Seat Oslo
management Mads Nygaard
Number of employees ~ 500
Branch Book publishing
Website https://www.aschehoug.no/

The country's generally short Aschehoug called big Norwegian book publisher H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) AS or Aschehoug forlag one of the major Norwegian book publishers, especially as he continues wirtschaftet regardless of international book companies. The company's headquarters are in Oslo . The publishing house has around 500 employees.

Aschehoug's main administration building in Oslo

history

The publishing house was founded by cousins ​​Hieronymus and Halvard Aschehoug in 1872 as a bookshop. From the beginning, publishing activities were also included to a lesser extent, initially mainly about school books. In 1888, the company was taken over by William Martin Nygaard and Thorstein Lambrechts (1856–1933), who kept the company name introduced on the market and greatly expanded the operational fields of activity.

The publisher William Nygaard withdrew the company from the book trade in 1900 and created a publishing house with the official name H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard) . As early as 1935, in the wake of Nygaard's death, the publishing company turned into a group company in the course of inheritance negotiations , with Nygaard's son, Mads Wiel Nygaard, becoming chairman of the board and top boss.

Aschehoug laid over the years such. B. Suhrkamp in Germany an increasingly large number of important books, including the works of Sigrid Undset , Fridtjof Nansen , Johan Falkberget , Hans E. Kinck , Aksel Sandemose and Arne Garborg - all writers who are currently among the modern classics of Norwegian literature.

Since 1973, the renowned Aschehoug Literature Prize , donated by the Aschehoug Verlag, has been awarded annually to writers from Norway who, according to the jury decision of the Norwegian Literary Critics Association, have published a currently outstanding Norwegian-language work.

Business lines

The publishing program is divided into three main categories : 1. Fiction (including children's and youth literature ), 2. Non-fiction and popular science as well as handbooks on hobbies of all kinds, 3. Textbooks of every level, including university literature . The publisher is the market leader in Norway for textbooks and standard books.

The Aschehoug Agency was founded in 2004 to represent the foreign licensing rights of Forlaget Oktober, Aschehoug and Universitetsforlaget. Aschehoug holds shares in various Norwegian publishers, including:

  • Universitetsforlaget (100%) - the largest academic publisher in Norway
  • Oktober-Verlag ( Forlaget Oktober , 91%) - formerly a left-wing Marxist publisher, now a fiction publisher
  • Norli Gruppen (100%) - book retail chain
  • Lydbokforlaget (33%) - audio books
  • De norske Bokklubbene (48.5%) - book clubs
  • Forlagsentralen (50%) - wholesale distribution for more than 75 percent of all books in Norway
  • Kunnskapsforlaget (50%) - publishes printed encyclopedias.

CEOs

  • William Martin Nygaard (1900-1935)
  • Mads Wiel Nygaard (1935–1952)
  • Andreas Wiel Nygaard (1952–1955)
  • Arthur Holmesland (1955–1973)
  • William Nygaard (1974-2010)
  • Mads Nygaard (2010-)

  • Halvard Aschehoug (1851-80)

  • William Nygaard the Elder, publisher's founder and politician

  • Mads Wiel Nygaard

  • William Nygaard (October 2009)

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