book publishing
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company
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established in January 2007 as a holding company incorporating some of the biggest Portuguese and Brazilian publishers and two of the largest African publishers. LeYa is the largest general-interest trade book publisher but it also publishes fiction, nonfiction and children's books, being also one of the most important Portuguese textbook and study book publisher.
Isaías Gomes Teixeira, a board member, has announced in 2008 that Leya's revenue target was Euros and that they aimed to publish around 1,000 different books in 2008.
Some of the notable authors Grupo Leya represents are some of the most renowned writers in the Portuguese-speaking world, including Lobo Antunes,
José Eduardo Agualusa
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amongst others.
Subsidiaries
*Texto Editores created in 1977, based in
Amadora
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Portugal
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*Edições Asa, founded in 1951 and acquired in 2007
*Editorial Caminho, founded in 1975, acquired in 2007 and best known for publishing
José Saramago
José de Sousa Saramago (; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese people, Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony Planeta in 2007.
*Gailivro, founded in 1987 and acquired in 2007.
*Nova Gaia, founded in 1985 and acquired in 2007.
*Oficina do Livro and Casa das Letras">Planeta Group">Planeta in 2007.
*Gailivro, founded in 1987 and acquired in 2007.
*Nova Gaia, founded in 1985 and acquired in 2007.
*Oficina do Livro and Casa das Letras, the former publishing company of Diário de Notícias, acquired in 2008.
*Academia do Livro
*Caderno
*Estrela Polar
*Livros d'Hoje
*Lua de Papel
*Ndjira, from Mozambique
*Novagaia
*Nzila, from Angola
*Quinta Essência
*Sebenta
*Teorema