Cia. das Letras

The Companhia das Letras is a Brazilian publisher founded in 1986 with headquarters in Sao Paulo. Founded by Luiz Schwarcz, who had experience working in Publisher Brasiliense, and his wife Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, had as one of the first 4 books To the Finland Station, Edmund Wilson, sales success that propelled the publisher, and the first twelve months of existence, has released 48 titles. Three years later joined the project economist and writer Fernando Moreira Salles. It has a total of seven seals: Knopf, Cia das Letras, Letrinhas Company, Company Pocket, the Company Comics, Penguin-Company, Enigma Publishing course. In 2005 he created the Pocket Stamp Company, which relaunches in editing the great economic successes of the Companhia das Letras. In 2009, three stamps were created: the Comic Co., Enigma and Penguin Publishing Company course. Comics in the Company brings a dedicated line to the comics. The publisher Enigma course is linked to education, material para. In 2010, the Company will seal Penguin to publish, in Portuguese, the book works for Penguin Classics, with the format of the internationally recognized collection, and a series of classics in English, as well as new projects conceived specifically for the collection.

Based on the list of famous authors it publishes, it ranks as Brazil's largest publisher and one of the best in South America

'The authors are in the catalog:'''

Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina) Jorge Amado (Brazil) Vinicius de Moraes (Brazil) Chico Buarque (Brazilian singer) Machado de Assis (Brazil) Luis Fernando Verissimo (Brazil) Harold Bloom (USA) Philip Roth (USA) Feodor Dostoevsky (Russia) Roberto Bolaño (Chile - Spain) Dr. Seuss (United States) Caetano Veloso (Brazilian singer) Alejo Carpentier (creator of magical realism) among many others.