Caballito de Acero

Caballito de Acero is a small independent publishing house based in Bogotá, Colombia. It describes itself as an editorial project devoted to literature and sport, publishing novels, short-story collections, poetry, photography books and children's titles whose common thread is athletic endeavour — chess, boxing, cycling, baseball and football. The catalogue mixes fiction and non-fiction, often with a strong graphic or photographic component, and the house presents itself as a place where writers can explore the poetry and drama of sport without apology. The publisher operates from an address in Bogotá (CRA 18a # 44·20) and sells directly through its own website as well as through book fairs and bookshops. Its list includes titles such as 'El brazalete Moore', 'El corazón del escorpión', 'Los idólatras', 'Pequeñas Grandes Enseñanzas', 'El arte de ganar un Dauphiné', 'Si boxeara con Hemingway perdería por nocaut', 'El truco es resistir', 'La pelea del siglo', 'El pequeño bretón' (a cycling novel), 'Colombia 86' (a football graphic novel), 'Los tenistas', 'Una mujer corre', 'Round 15' (a boxing novel), 'El arte de la máscara' (a lucha libre photo archive) and 'La Instrumentalina' (a short cycling novel). Several titles are flagged as new for FILBO 2026, indicating an active presence at the Bogotá International Book Fair. Beyond publishing its own books, Caballito de Acero offers editorial services to outside authors and institutions: editing and proofreading, editorial design, illustration, translation and print brokerage. The company is led by editor Luis Alejandro Díaz, identified on its services page as CEO. It is a private, independent venture rather than part of a large media group, and its scale — a small press with a focused niche — is reflected in its catalogue and its direct-to-reader sales model.

Caballito de Acero is a small independent publishing house based in Bogotá, Colombia. Its own 'Nosotros' page frames the project as a response to the way sport and athletic beauty have been treated in culture: it recalls that in antiquity praising athletic beauty meant naming the poetic and sacred character of the human body, and that even in pre-Columbian America sport and play reached levels that transcended reality. The publisher argues that contemporary culture no longer allows people to speak about and enjoy that athletic beauty for the sheer pleasure of being moved by the poetry of a dribble, a checkmate, a knockout or the fantastic acceleration of a sprint. Caballito de Acero was therefore created as a vehicle to 'gallop freely' through the novel, the short story, the poem, the photograph and children's books, feeding only on what its founders love: chess, boxing, cycling, baseball and football. The house operates from an address in Bogotá (CRA 18a # 44·20) and sells its titles through its own website, where each book is presented with a cover, a short description and a price in Colombian pesos. Its catalogue is deliberately niche: cycling novels such as 'El pequeño bretón' and 'La Instrumentalina'; football graphic novels and story collections such as 'Colombia 86', 'Soy gallina / Soy león' and 'Soy verdolaga / Soy poderoso'; boxing titles such as 'Round 15', 'La pelea del siglo' and 'Si boxeara con Hemingway perdería por nocaut'; tennis and running novels such as 'Los tenistas' and 'Una mujer corre'; chess story collections such as 'Veinticuatro miniaturas rusas'; and photographic projects such as 'El arte de la máscara', an archive of lucha libre photography. Several titles are marked as new for FILBO 2026, the Bogotá International Book Fair, showing that the press uses the fair circuit as a key sales and launch channel. Alongside its own list, Caballito de Acero runs an editorial-services arm. Its services page offers editing and proofreading (orthotypographic correction, style review, fact-checking), editorial design for print and digital publications (books, magazines, newspapers, catalogues, primers, yearbooks, brochures), illustration (drawings, collages and other analogue, digital or mixed plastic works), professional translation for scientific and creative texts, and print brokerage, matching each project with a suitable printer according to run size, format, materials, binding and budget. The company is led by editor Luis Alejandro Díaz, identified on the services page as CEO, and can be contacted by email at editorial@caballitodeacero.com or by mobile phone. It is a private, independent venture rather than part of a larger media group, and its scale — a small press with a focused niche — is reflected in its catalogue and its direct-to-reader sales model.

• Caballito de Acero is active as a small press based in Bogotá, Colombia, publishing literature and sport-themed books.

• The publisher lists several titles as new for FILBO 2026, the Bogotá International Book Fair.

Independent Colombian small press publishing literature and sport-themed books, with a direct-to-reader sales model and editorial services for external authors.

• El brazalete Moore

  New for FILBO 2026; priced at 79,000 COP.

• El corazón del escorpión

  New for FILBO 2026; priced at 49,000 COP.

• Los idólatras

  New for FILBO 2026; priced at 49,000 COP.

• Pequeñas Grandes Enseñanzas

  New for FILBO 2026; priced at 69,000 COP.

• Fuera de Lugar

  Priced at 49,000 COP.

• El día de la rana

  Priced at 69,000 COP.

• Una partida de ajedrez

  Priced at 39,000 COP.

• El arte de ganar un Dauphiné

  Priced at 59,000 COP.

• Si boxeara con Hemingway perdería por nocaut

  Priced at 49,000 COP.

• El truco es resistir

  Priced at 49,000 COP.

• El jugador de billar

  Priced at 29,000 COP.

• La pelea del siglo

  Priced at 119,000 COP.

• Cuenta conmigo

  Priced at 59,000 COP.

• ¿Quo Vadis, Sánchez?

  Priced at 39,000 COP.

• Cuando perder era ganar un poco

  Priced at 49,000 COP.

• El pequeño bretón

  Cycling novel; priced at 59,000 COP.

• Colombia 86

  Football graphic novel; priced at 59,000 COP.

• Los tenistas

  Tennis novel; priced at 39,000 COP.

• Una mujer corre

  Running novel; priced at 39,000 COP.

• Soy gallina / Soy león

  22 stories of Bogotá football; sold out.

• Round 15

  Boxing novel; priced at 39,000 COP.

• Soy verdolaga / Soy poderoso

  22 stories of Antioquia football; priced at 49,000 COP.

• El arte de la máscara

  Photographic archive of lucha libre; priced at 69,000 COP.

• La Instrumentalina

  Short cycling novel; priced at 19,000 COP.

1. 1Literatura y deporte | Editorial Caballito de Acero | Colombiacaballitodeacero.com
2. 2Nosotros | La Editorial | Caballito de Acerocaballitodeacero.com
3. 3SERVICIOS EDITORIALES | Caballito de Acerocaballitodeacero.com
4. 4Caballito de Acerowikidata.org