Arktos Media is a publishing company known for publishing authors of the European New Right, as well as translating European far-right literature into English. It has been described by historian Mark Sedgwick as a "radical-right publisher".

History

Arktos was founded in

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in 2009 by Swedish businessman and former active neo-nazi Daniel Friberg and John B. Morgan, an American editor. The company launched in 2010, then relocated to Sweden in 2014 and Hungary in 2015. Friberg had previously distributed

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and

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paraphernalia before starting the company. His stated goal was to create a Swedish parallel to American

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media. Friberg is the CEO, while Gregory Lauder-Frost, formerly of the

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, leads the British division. American professor

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became editor-in-chief in 2016, but later left that position when he began to distance himself from the

, though he has since then continued to release books with the publisher. Arktos was the world's largest distributor of far-right literature as of 2017, according to ''

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''. In 2019, Arktos was publishing more than 120 titles by 54 authors, including translations of the Russian ultra-nationalist

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and the French far-right thinker

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. The

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has identified Arktos as being a bedfellow of

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