Cartea Românească ("The Romanian Book") is a

publishing house Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

, founded in 1919. Disestablished by the

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in 1948, it was restored under later communism, in 1970, when it functioned as the official imprint of the

Writers' Union of Romania The Writers' Union of Romania (), founded in March 1949, is a professional association of writers in Romania. It also has a subsidiary in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova. The Writers' Union of Romania was created by the communist regime by takin ...

(USR)."Cartea Românească, un nou început"
, in '' România Literară'', Nr. 3/2017 The USR maintained its control of the business following the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and, from 2005 to 2016, shared the brand with a private company, Polirom. By 2016, this venture was noted for its authors' series, including in particular Gheorghe Crăciun and Octavian Soviany.''Noutățile Editurilor Polirom și Cartea Românească la Gaudeamus 2016''
RFI România, November 16, 2016 The protocol with the USR was not renewed that year and, as of 2017, Cartea Românească is a brand shared between the USR and Editura Paralela 45.

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