Companhia das Letras

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Companhia das Letras is the company name of the Brazilian publishing company Editora Schwarcz SA , based in São Paulo . The company was founded in 1986 and has since published approximately 3,000 book titles by 1,500 authors in the seven associated imprints . The range also includes e-books . In 2011, Penguin Books bought 45% of the company's shares. On October 30, 2018, Penguin Random House announced that it would take over a further 25% of the shares held by Fernando Moreira Salles, with PRH now holding 70% and the Schwarcz family (Luiz Schwarcz and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz ) holding 30% as minority owners .

Publishing history

The publishing house was founded in 1986 by Luiz Schwarcz , who already had publishing experience from working at Editora Brasiliense , and his wife, the social anthropologist Lilia Moritz Schwarcz . Fernando Moreira Salles joined the publishing house three years later. Among the first four books published was the translation of the history work To the Finland Station by the American Edmund Wilson, a great sales success that laid the foundation for further publishing work. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz published a bestseller herself with her As barbas do Imperador (The Emperor's Beard). The best-selling work is the Portuguese translation of Sofies Welt by Jostein Gaarder with over 950,000 copies.

Companhia das Letras is now one of the most renowned Brazilian publishers. According to a survey by the specialist magazine Valor Econômico on July 23, 2012, Companhia das Letras was rated by critics, authors and experts as the best publisher ahead of Cosac Naify because of the high quality and the level of awareness of the publishers' authors .

With around 100 employees, around 200 books are published each year with an average print run of 4,500 copies.

Publishers

Imprints :

  • Companhia das Letras, a publishing house for literature and humanities that has existed since 1986
  • Companhia das Letrinhas, a children's book publisher founded in 1992
  • Cia. das Letras, a youth book publisher that has existed since 1994
  • Companhia de Bolso, a paperback publisher founded in 2005
  • Quadrinhos na Cia., A comic book publisher in existence since 2009
  • editora Claro Enigma, a textbook publisher in existence since 2009
  • Penguin Companhia, has been publishing classics in Portuguese since 2010 in collaboration with Penguin Books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NN: Institutional , on the publisher's website.
  2. ↑ NN: Grupo Penguin compra 45% da Companhia das Letras , on: globo.com of December 5, 2011 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Grupo Penguin assume controle da Companhia das Letras . In: G1 . October 30, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, globo.com [accessed November 5, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Ed Nawotka: PRH Acquires Brazil's Companhia das Letras . In: Publishers Weekly . October 31, 2018 (English, publishersweekly.com [accessed November 5, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Márcio Ferrari: Letras maiúsculas . In: Valor Econômico , São Paulo, July 23, 2010. Retrieved July 21, 2013 (Portuguese). ( Full text ).