Wydawnictwo Literackie

Wydawnictwo Literackie (abbreviated WL, lit. "Literary Press") is a Kraków-based Polish publishing house, which has been referred to as one of Poland's "most respected".[1]

Wydawnictwo Literackie
TypePublishing House
FoundedKraków
Headquarters
Kraków
,
Poland
ProductsBooks
ServicesPublishing books
Websitewww.wydawnictwoliterackie.pl

Company history

Since its foundation in 1953, Wydawnictwo Literackie has been focused on publishing modern prose and poetry by both renown and emerging authors, both Polish and foreign. In recent years it is primarily associated with editions of Polish language classics of the 20th century and of modern science-fiction novels. In recent years the publishing house also expanded into the market of textbooks for humanities, lexicons and dictionaries.

Polish authors

Among the writers and poets associated with the publishing house are Nobel Prize winners Orhan Pamuk, Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz and Nadine Gordimer. Other Polish authors whose works have been published by the Wydawnictwo Literackie (some of them for the first time, or for the first time in official print) include Janusz Anderman, Jacek Dukaj, Aleksander Fiut, Witold Gombrowicz, Stefan Grabiński, Zbigniew Herbert, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Marek S.Huberath, Maria Janion, Ryszard Kapuściński, Jan Kott, Stanisław Lem, Ewa Lipska, Jerzy Pilch, Tadeusz Różewicz, Jan Józef Szczepański, Olga Tokarczuk, Jan Twardowski, Karol Wojtyła and Adam Zagajewski.

Foreign authors

The printing house also publishes the Polish language editions of literary classics of English, German, Spanish and Russian-language literary worlds, including the works by Lisa Appignanesi, John Banville, Walter Benjamin, Thomas Bernhard, Jorge Luis Borges, Didier van Cauwelaert, Susanna Clarke, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, T.S.Eliot, Carlos Fuentes, Jason Goodwin, Nick Hornby, Ivan Klima, David Mitchell, Garth Nix, Ian Ogilvy, Bulat Okudzhava, Sylvia Plath, Octavio Paz, Matthew Pearl, Graham Swift, John Updike and Virginia Woolf.

Book series

Title of the series in Polish / English translation of series title

  • Biblioteka Klasyki Polskiej i Obcej (Library of Polish and Foreign Classics)
  • Biblioteka Romantyczna (Romantic Library)
  • Biblioteka Poezji Młodej Polski (Young Poland Poetry Library)
  • Seria Tatrzańska (Tatrzańska Series)
  • Portrety Wielokrotne (Multiple Portraits)
  • Seria Eseju Klasycznego (Classical Essay Series)
  • Biblioteka Studiów Literackich (Library of Literary Studies)
  • Dawnej Literatury Angielskiej (Ancient English Literature)
  • Fantastyka i Groza (Fantasy and Horror)
  • Z Klepsydrą (With an Hourglass)
  • Stanisław Lem poleca (Stanislaw Lem Recommends)
  • Proza Iberoamerykańska (Ibero-American Prose)
  • Seria Dwujęzyczna (Bilingual Series)
  • Wspomnienia oświęcimskie (Auschwitz Memories)
  • Cykl wspomnień Żydów krakowskich (Memories of Krakow Jews series)
  • Lekcja Literatury (Literature Lesson)
  • Obrazy Współczesności (Contemporary Pictures)
  • Leksykon Historii i Kultury Polskiej (Lexicon of Polish History and Culture)
  • Seria Klasyków Nowoczesnej Literatury (Series of Classics of Modern Literature)
  • Cykl Historii Polski (Polish History Series)
  • Pisarzy Języka Niemieckiego (German Language Writers)

References
  1. Herbert R. Lottman, "Warsaw Fair: Window on a New Market", Publishers Weekly, Volume 245, Issue 8, February 23, 1998, p. 43.
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