Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, PRH's global Spanish-language division, is buying Ediciones Salamandra, with headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, a move that PRH says "reinforces its leadership in the Spanish-language market, both in Spain and Latin America."
PRH CEO Markus Dohle commented: "As our acquisitions of Santillana Ediciones Generales, Ediciones B, and now Ediciones Salamandra demonstrate, Penguin Random House strongly believes in the global growth potential of the Spanish-language market, and we very much look forward to bringing Ediciones Salamandra's authors to an even wider readership."
Ediciones Salamandra publishes some 500 Spanish-language and international authors, including J.K. Rowling, Antonine de Saint-Exupéry, Andrea Camilleri, Jonathan Franzen, Jonas Jonasson, Ferdinand von Schirach, Margaret Atwood, Philip Claudel, Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer, Amor Towles, Jennifer Egan, Zadie Smith, Nicole Kraus, Mark Haddon, John Boyne, Khaled Hosseini and Antonio Manzini. The company's imprints, which include Narrativa, Black, Novela, Narrativa Joven, Blue, Ñ, Català, Fun & Food, Graphic and Letras de Bolsillo, will continue to publish Spanish-language originals and Spanish and Catalan translations of fiction and non-fiction works for children and adults in a range of formats. Ediciones Salamandra co-owner Sigrid Kraus will continue as publishing manager.
Ediciones Salamandra's roots go back to 1989, more than 10 years before its formal establishment, when Pedro del Carril and Sigrid Kraus took charge of the Spanish subsidiary of Argentine publisher Emecé Editores. They initially published Spanish editions of the work of leading authors from Emecé's Argentine catalogue as well as titles attuned to the Spanish market. In 2000, Kraus and del Carril acquired full ownership of Emecé España, which changed its name to Ediciones Salamandra. Kraus and del Carril sold the company to PRH Grupo Editorial.