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Navona Editorial

Catalan independent publisher founded in 2007, publishing fiction and non-fiction in Catalan and Spanish.

Last updated September 27, 2026

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Overview

Navona Editorial is a Catalan publishing house founded in 2007. It publishes around sixty books a year in Catalan and Spanish, spanning both fiction and non-fiction, and combines the discovery of new voices with the recovery of classics and out-of-print titles. From 2015 it was directed by Pere Sureda until it entered insolvency proceedings (concurso de acreedores) in 2021. The following year it was revived with journalist Ernest Folch as general director and businessmen Tatxo Benet and Jaume Roures as capital partners. Its first published title was Una llibretera de París (A Bookseller in Paris) by Kerri Maher, a novel about Sylvia Beach, founder of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris and publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses.

History

Navona Editorial was founded in 2007 as a Catalan publishing house. Its first published title was Una llibretera de París (A Bookseller in Paris) by Kerri Maher, a novel about Sylvia Beach, founder of the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris and publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses. From 2015, the publisher was directed by Pere Sureda. In 2021, the company entered insolvency proceedings (concurso de acreedores). The following year, it was revived with journalist Ernest Folch as general director and businessmen Tatxo Benet and Jaume Roures as capital partners. The publisher continues to issue around sixty books a year in Catalan and Spanish, covering both fiction and non-fiction, and combining the discovery of new voices with the recovery of classics and out-of-print titles.

  • 2022

    Revived with Ernest Folch as general director and Tatxo Benet and Jaume Roures as capital partners.

  • 2021

    Company enters insolvency proceedings (concurso de acreedores).

  • 2015

    Pere Sureda becomes director.

  • 2007

    Navona Editorial founded as a Catalan publishing house.

  • 2007

    First title published: Una llibretera de París by Kerri Maher.

Products and positioning

Independent Catalan publisher combining new voices with recovered classics, publishing in Catalan and Spanish.

  • Una llibretera de París

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