This is a leading publishing and distribution company in the Spanish language, part of the international Penguin Random House Group, founded on the 1st of July 2013 through an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson. It owns more than 20 publishing imprints (including Sudamericana, Lumen, Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Debate, Literatura Random House and others) and is present in Spain and numerous Latin American countries. Its different imprints include the former Catalan-language publishing house Rosa dels Vents. The group exports to more than 45 countries.
+ informationConserved in the group’s headquarters.
In 2014, the Plaza & Janés and Grijalbo collections joined the Biblioteca de Catalunya through a donation from Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
Press release (19th June, 2014)
Collections of the Biblioteca de Catalunya
This is a leading publishing and distribution company in the Spanish language, part of the international Penguin Random House Group, founded on the 1st of July 2013 through an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson. It owns more than 20 publishing imprints (including Sudamericana, Lumen, Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo, Debate, Literatura Random House and others) and is present in Spain and numerous Latin American countries. Its different imprints include the former Catalan-language publishing house Rosa dels Vents. The group exports to more than 45 countries.
The mission of this group is to publish books for all audiences, ages and formats. To this end the purchase of publishing imprints allows it to constantly innovate and update.
The wide range of authors reflects the extensive output of this publishing house. Prominent authors include Gabriel García Márquez and Ernest Hemingway.
Its diverse output means that the range of genres is also diverse and different. Fiction, essay, practical books, illustrated books, graphic novels, fantasy and science fiction, dictionaries, romance novels, children’s and young reader books, short stories and essays fill out its wide range of output.