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Wydawnictwo Literackie
Company typePublishing House
FoundedKraków
Headquarters
Kraków
,
Poland
ProductsBooks
ServicesPublishing books
Websitewww.wydawnictwoliterackie.pl

Wydawnictwo Literackie (abbreviated WL, lit. "Literary Press") is a Kraków-based Polish publishing house, which has been referred to as one of Poland's "most respected".[1]

Company history

Since its foundation in 1953, Wydawnictwo Literackie has been focused on publishing modern prose and poetry by both renown and emerging authors, both Polish and foreign. In recent years it is primarily associated with editions of Polish language classics of the 20th century and of modern science-fiction novels. In recent years, the publishing house also expanded into the market of textbooks for humanities, lexicons and dictionaries.

In 2019, the company was reported to have 44 employees and an annual turnover of "$13.78 million in sales".[2]

The company headquarters is located in the Dom Pod Globusem building at 1 Długa Street, Krakow. A globe with the symbol of the company sits on the top of that building.

Polish authors

Among the writers and poets associated with the publishing house are Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, Nadine Gordimer and Olga Tokarczuk.[3] Other Polish authors whose works have been published by the Wydawnictwo Literackie (some of them for the first time, or for the first time in official print) include Janusz Anderman, Jacek Dukaj, Aleksander Fiut, Witold Gombrowicz, Stefan Grabiński, Zbigniew Herbert, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Marek S.Huberath, Maria Janion, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jan Kott, Stanisław Lem, Ewa Lipska, Jerzy Pilch, Tadeusz Różewicz, Jan Józef Szczepański, Szczepan Twardoch (including the Chołod[4]), Jan Twardowski, Karol Wojtyła and Adam Zagajewski.

Foreign authors

The printing house also publishes the Polish language editions of literary classics of English, German, Spanish and Russian-language literary worlds, including the works by Lisa Appignanesi, John Banville, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Didier van Cauwelaert, Susanna Clarke, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, T.S.Eliot, Carlos Fuentes, Jason Goodwin, Nick Hornby, Ivan Klima, David Mitchell, Garth Nix, Ian Ogilvy, Bulat Okudzhava, Sylvia Plath, Octavio Paz, Matthew Pearl, Graham Swift, John Updike and Virginia Woolf.

Book series

Title of the series in Polish / English translation of series title

References

  1. ^ Herbert R. Lottman, "Warsaw Fair: Window on a New Market", Publishers Weekly, Volume 245, Issue 8, February 23, 1998, p. 43.
  2. ^ WYDAWNICTWO LITERACKIE SP Z O O, Dun & Bradstreet, dnb.com. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  3. ^ Jaroslaw Adamowksi, The Pandemic: 'A Number of New Arrangements', publishingperspectives.com. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Chołod". wydawnictwoliterackie.pl. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
  5. ^ Biblioteka Klasyki Polskiej i Obcej, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  6. ^ Biblioteka Poezji Młodej Polski, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  7. ^ Lekcja Literatury, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  8. ^ Leksykon Historii i Kultury Polskiej, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  9. ^ Literatura Iberyjska, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  10. ^ Pisarze Języka Niemieckiego, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  11. ^ Proza Iberoamerykańska, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  12. ^ Seria Dwujęzyczna, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.
  13. ^ Seria Pary, worldcat.org. Retrieved 7 March 2021.

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