Ediciones Destino is a Spanish publishing house, founded by the editors of the weekly Destino in the 1942. Destino's catalogue includes the most emblematic Spanish authors of the post-war period such as

Miguel Delibes Miguel Delibes Setién MML (; 17 October 1920 – 12 March 2010) was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement. From 1975 until his death, he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, w ...

Camilo José Cela Camilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquess of Iria Flavia (; 11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002) was a Spanish novelist, poet, story writer and essayist associated with the Generation of '36 movement. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Litera ...

, Carmen Martín Gaite, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio,

Ana María Matute Ana María Matute Ausejo (26 July 1925 – 25 June 2014) was an internationally acclaimed Spanish writer and member of the Real Academia Española. In 1959, she received the Premio Nadal for ''Primera memoria''. The third woman to receive the Ce ...

, Carmen Laforet, etc. and great foreign authors such as

George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitar ...

Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. Early life Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then the province ...

Naguib Mahfuz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...

. Recently it has been publishing authors such as Andrés Trapiello,

Antonio Soler Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

Pedro Zarraluki Pedro Zarraluki (born 1954) is a Spanish writer. He was born in Barcelona. He published his first book at the age of 20 and has written several novels and short story collections since then. He has won numerous prizes, including the Premio Nada ...

or Eduardo Lago. 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 Premio Nadal is a Spanish literary prize awarded annually by the publishing house Ediciones Destino, part of Planeta Group, Planeta. It has been awarded every year on 6 January since 1944. The Josep Pla Award for Catalan literature is given at the ...

, founded in 1944 (the oldest award in Spanish literature), and the Josep Pla Prize, founded in 1968, for unpublished works in Catalan.

Planeta Group Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta (), is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is the world's leading Spanish-language book publisher. Editorial Planeta, founded in ...

bought half of the publisher's shares in 1989, and the rest in 1996.

Destino Infantil & Juvenil

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 Cornelia Maria Funke () (born 10 December 1958) is a German author of children's fiction. Born in Dorsten, North Rhine-Westphalia, she began her career as a social worker before becoming a book illustrator. She began writing novels in the late 19 ...

, the Chronicles of Narnia series, by

C. S. Lewis Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British writer and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Oxford University (Magdalen College, 1925–1954) and Cambridge Univers ...

, and books by

Geronimo Stilton ''Geronimo Stilton'' is an Italian children's chapter book series written by Elisabetta Dami under the pen name of the title character. Scholastic Corporation has published the English version of the series in the US since February 2004, and t ...

, among others. In 1981, it established the Apel·les Mestres Award, that rewards illustrated international children's and youth literature.

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