Ediciones Destino

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Ediciones Destino
Parent company Planeta Group
Founded1942;80 years ago (1942)
FoundersJosep Vergés i Matas
Joan Teixidor i Comes
Ignasi Agustí i Peypoch
Country of originSpain
Headquarters locationBarcelona
Publication typesBooks
Official website http://www.edestino.es/

Ediciones Destino is a Spanish publishing house, founded by the editors of the weekly Destino in the 1942. [1]

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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, Bohumil Hrabal or Naguib Mahfuz. Recently it has been publishing authors such as Andrés Trapiello, Antonio Soler, Pedro Zarraluki or Eduardo Lago. [2]

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The publishing house awards two prizes a year for unpublished works, the Nadal Prize, founded in 1944 (the oldest award in Spanish literature), and the Josep Pla Prize, founded in 1968, for unpublished works in Catalan. [1] [3]

Planeta Group bought half of the publisher's shares in 1989, [4] and the rest in 1996. [5]

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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, 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. [1]

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References

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  2. "Autores y escritores de Ediciones Destino". Planeta de Libros (in European Spanish). (classified by last name initial). Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 21 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. Andrés Seoane. "Ana Merino, Premio Nadal 2020 | El Cultural" (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. "ABC MADRID 08-09-1989 página 33". Archivo ABC (in Spanish). 20 August 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. "ABC MADRID 24-12-1996 página 55". Archivo ABC (in Spanish). 29 August 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)