JPV was an Icelandic publishing house, established in 2001 by
Jóhann Páll Valdimarsson
Jóhann is a masculine given name. It is the Icelandic and Faroese form of the name Johann, a form of the Germanic and Latin given name "Johannes". The English-language form is John.
The Icelandic surname Jóhannsson is a patronymic surname meani ...
, from whose initials the press takes its name. On 1 October 2007, JPV merged with the publishers
Mál og menning,
Vaka-Helgafell and
Bókaútgáfan Iðunn under the name
Forlagið
Forlagið (meaning "The Publishing House") is the largest publishing house in Iceland. It publishes around 150 titles a year under five different imprints: JPV, Mál og menning, , , and Ókeibækur. It is also publishes maps.
The company was cr ...
. However, books continue to be published under the JPV imprint.
Mál og Menning og JPV sameinast
(25 November 2007).
References
External links
Official website
Literary publishing companies
Publishing companies of Iceland
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