Schildts Förlags Ab was a Swedish-language

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. The publisher published textbooks as well as fiction and non-fiction. The head office was in Helsinki and there was a branch located in Vaasa. The publisher was owned by Svenska Folkskolans Vänner. On 1 February 2012, Schildts and Söderströms merged into one publishing house,

Schildts & Söderströms Schildts & Söderströms is a Finnish book publisher, which was established in February 2012 through a merger between Schildts Förlags Ab and Söderström & Co. The publisher is based in Helsinki. Its first managing director was until Februar ...

. After an apprenticeship at his uncle's bookstore, founded a publishing house in

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in 1913, which was reorganized into Holger Schildts Förlags AB in 1919. In 1991, the publishing house merged with Editum, which published textbooks. Among the publisher's fiction writers,

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is internationally known; her ''

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'' series was published by the company. Since 1987 it has also published Finnish-language literature, mainly translations but also original Finnish titles later on. A Finnish editorial office was established in 1996. Schildts was a partner in and in Sweden. The publisher's annual output was 30–40 titles for the general editorial staff, some 30 textbooks, 20–30 Finnish books, and partial editions from Sweden. The range included fiction, nonfiction, children's books and encyclopedias, including the encyclopedia ''

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''. In nonfiction, Schildts focused on

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in a broad sense. The proportion of nonfiction, novels and poetry was around 40–40–20, but varied from year to year. Typically between two and five debut authors were published each year, while around 150 first-time manuscripts were received.

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Schildts förlags Ab
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Schildts & Söderströms' website
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