Companhia das Letras

Companhia das Letras is the company name of the Brazilian publishing company Editora Schwarcz SA, headquartered in São Paulo. The company was founded in 1986 and has since appeared about 3,000 book titles from 1,500 authors in the seven belonging to it Imprints out. The range includes also e-books. 2011 bought the media group Pearson 45% stake in the company.

Publishing history

The publishing house was founded in 1986 by Luiz Schwarcz, the publishing experience from activities from the publisher Editora Brasiliense already brought, and his wife, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz social anthropologist. Fernando Moreira Salles Three years later joined the publishing house management. Among the first four books was laid with the translation of historical work To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson of the American a great sales success, which laid the basis for further editorial work. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz himself published with their ace barbas do Imperador ( The beard of the emperor) a bestseller. The best-selling work is the Portuguese translation of Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder, with over 950,000 copies.

Companhia das Letras is now considered one of the most renowned Brazilian publishers. A survey of journal Valor Econômico from July 23 according to the 2012, the Companhia das Letras was classified by critics, authors and experts because of the high quality and the level of awareness of the publishing authors as the best publisher before Cosac Naify.

With approximately 100 employees are on the 200 books per year laid with an average circulation of 4,500 copies.

Publishers

Imprints:

• Companhia das Letras, an existing since 1986 Publishing House for Literature and Humanities
• Companhia das Letrinhas, an existing since 1992 children's book publishing
• Companhia de Bolso, an existing since 2005 Taschenbuchverlag
• Editora Claro Enigma, an existing since 2009 Lehrbuchverlag
• Penguin Companhia classic since 2010, in collaboration with Penguin Books in Portuguese out