Editorial Sudamericana

Editorial Sudamericana is an Argentine publisher established in 1939 at Humberto I 555 in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires by a group of Argentine intellectuals and Spanish exiles: Victoria Ocampo, Carlos Mayer, Oliverio Girondo, Alfredo González Garaño and Rafael Vehils. It was created to publish South American authors and to translate and disseminate contemporary foreign literature. After the founders recognized their inexperience as businessmen, they entrusted Vehils with finding an experienced editor, Antonio López Llausás, who had left Spain because of the Civil War and led the company until 1979; later his children and grandchildren took over its leadership. Since 2001 it has been part of Penguin Random House, and its titles are distributed across all the group's territories. Its history includes major Argentine literary figures such as Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Sábato, Manuel Puig, Jorge Luis Borges and Leopoldo Marechal, as well as international figures such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, William Faulkner and Albert Camus. It published Cien años de soledad in 1967 after several Spanish publishers rejected it, and it also introduced self-help books in Argentina and the rest of Latin America and created Piragua.

Editorial Sudamericana was established in 1939 at Humberto I 555 in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires by a group of Argentine intellectuals and Spanish exiles: Victoria Ocampo, Carlos Mayer, Oliverio Girondo, Alfredo González Garaño and Rafael Vehils. It was founded with the purpose of making South American authors known and, at the same time, translating and disseminating contemporary foreign literature. After the founders recognized their inexperience as businessmen, they relied on Vehils's choice of an experienced editor, Antonio López Llausás, who had left Spain because of the Civil War and was in charge of the company until 1979. Years later, his children and grandchildren took over the leadership of Sudamericana. Since 2001 it has been part of Penguin Random House, and its titles are distributed in all the group's territories. Its history includes leading names of Argentine literature such as Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Sábato, Manuel Puig, Jorge Luis Borges and Leopoldo Marechal, and major international figures such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, William Faulkner and Albert Camus. Cien años de soledad was published by Sudamericana in 1967 after several Spanish publishers rejected it. Sudamericana also introduced self-help books in Argentina and the rest of Latin America and created Piragua.

• 1967

  Cien años de soledad

• Self-help books

• Piragua

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2. 2Conócenos - Penguin Random House Grupo Editorialpenguinrandomhousegrupoeditorial.com
3. 3Nuestro equipo - Penguin Random House Grupo Editorialpenguinrandomhousegrupoeditorial.com
4. 4Sudamericanawikidata.org