Zakharov Books (Russian: Издательство Захаров) is one of the main Russian independent publishing houses.
Founded by the journalist Igor Zakharov in 1998 as a small independent publishing company, they gradually developed into an important publisher of popular and literary fiction. At the very beginning of their existence as an independent publishing, they discovered
Boris Akunin
Boris Akunin (russian: Борис Акунин) is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili (russian: Григорий Шалвович Чхартишвили, Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili; ka, გრიგორი ჩხარტიშვ ...
, and they still hold the rights to his best-selling books about Inspector
Fandorin Fandorin is a fictitious Russian surname in the novels of Boris Akunin. Series protagonists include:
* Erast Fandorin
Erast Petrovich Fandorin (russian: Эраст Петрович Фандорин) is a fictional 19th-century Russian detective a ...
that have been translated into most European languages. More than seven million copies of these books were sold in Russia alone. Among their other authors they list such writers as
Vladimir Sorokin
Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Соро́кин; born 7 August 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist. He has been described as one of the most popular writers ...
,
Venedikt Erofeyev,
Sergey Gandlevsky,
Vera Pavlova and
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Russian: Анатолий Исаевич Кудрявицкий; born 17 August 1954) is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet, editor and literary translator.
Biography
Kudryavitsky's father, Jerzy, was a Ukrainian-born Polish n ...
. Zakharov Books are also prominent as publishers of translated fiction, memoirs and biographies (more than four hundred titles appeared over the last ten years).
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External links
Official site(Russian)
Book publishing companies of Russia
Companies based in Moscow