Ediciones Destino is a Spanish publishing house, founded by the editors of the
weekly Destino in the 1942.
Destino's catalogue includes the most emblematic Spanish authors of the post-war period such as
Miguel Delibes,
Camilo José Cela,
Carmen Martín Gaite,
Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio,
Ana María Matute,
Carmen Laforet, etc. and great foreign authors such as
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to a ...
,
Bohumil Hrabal or
Naguib Mahfuz. Recently it has been publishing authors such as
Andrés Trapiello,
Antonio Soler,
Pedro Zarraluki or
Eduardo Lago.
In Catalan, the highly illustrated "''Image of Catalonia''" collection, often by photographers as Francesc Català Roca, had a strong impact and collected important Catalan subjects by leading authors.
The publishing house awards two prizes a year for unpublished works, the
Nadal Prize, founded in 1944 (the oldest award in Spanish literature), and the
Josep Pla Prize, founded in 1968, for unpublished works in Catalan.
Planeta Group
Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta (), is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is headquartered in Madrid.
Editorial Planeta, founded in 1949, was the seed of Gru ...
bought half of the publisher's shares in 1989, and the rest in 1996.
Destino Infantil & Juvenil
Destino Infantil & Juvenil is a children's publishing label of Destino Publishing House, who publish books for young people since 2002. Under this label are published illustrated albums and children's and youth fiction, in Spanish and Catalan. Some of the bestsellers are The Lord of Thieves, by acclaimed German writer
Cornelia Funke,
the Chronicles of Narnia series, by
C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalen ...
, and books by
Geronimo Stilton, among others.
In 1981, it established the
Apel·les Mestres Award, that rewards illustrated international children's and youth literature.
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Publishing companies of Spain