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 ...
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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 ...
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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, Bohumil Hrabal or Naguib Mahfuz. Recently it has been publishing authors such as Andrés Trapiello, Antonio Soler (novelist), Antonio Soler, Pedro Zarraluki 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The publishing house awards two prizes a year for unpublished works, the Nadal Prize, founded in 1944 (the oldest award in Spanish literature), and the Josep Pla Prize, founded in 1968, for unpublished works in Catalan.
Planeta Group 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, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Chronicles of Narnia series, by C. S. Lewis, and books by Geronimo Stilton, among others.
In 1981, it established the Apel·les Mestres, Apel·les Mestres Award, that rewards illustrated international children's and youth literature.
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Publishing companies of Spain