Relógio D'Água

Relógio D'Água Editores is a medium-sized Portuguese publishing house based in Lisbon, founded in 1983. It publishes mainly literature and essays, issuing around 45 new titles per year, about 60 per cent of which are translations. Its catalogue exceeds 1,300 works and grows by roughly seventy new titles annually. The publisher is particularly celebrated for its poetry collection, which includes Portuguese authors such as Fernando Pessoa, Cesário Verde, Ruy Cinatti, Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão and Maria Andresen, as well as Brazilian poets Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Cecília Meireles and Manuel Bandeira, alongside bilingual editions of Hölderlin, Rimbaud, Blake, Rilke, Yeats, Lorca, T. S. Eliot, Neruda, Charles Tomlinson, Szymborska and Tomas Tranströmer. In fiction, the catalogue features international names such as Beckett, Clarice Lispector, Carson McCullers, Cormac McCarthy, Arthur Conan Doyle, Don DeLillo, Marguerite Duras, Irène Némirovsky, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, Karen Blixen, Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov and Virginia Woolf, while Portuguese fiction is represented by Hélia Correia, Maria Gabriela Llansol, Gonçalo M. Tavares and Ana Teresa Pereira. Non-fiction includes works by Sigmund Freud, Rómulo de Carvalho, Charles Darwin, Konrad Lorenz and Oliver Sacks. In the humanities, the publisher covers thinkers from Plato to Montaigne, Nietzsche to Foucault, Benjamin, Freud, Deleuze, Hannah Arendt and George Steiner, as well as Baudrillard, Lipovetsky, Elisabeth Badinter, Fernando Savater, José Gil, António Barreto and Nuno Nabais. The company also publishes in areas ranging from theatre, arts and communication to children's literature, science and specific collections on music, architecture and cinema. According to Manuel Alberto Valente, editorial director of Porto Editora, Relógio D'Água has the best catalogue in Portuguese publishing. The publisher remains independent and active, with a direct-to-consumer online store offering promotions and pre-orders.

Relógio D'Água Editores was founded in 1983 in Lisbon, Portugal. It established itself as a medium-sized independent publisher focused on literature and essays. Over the decades, it built a catalogue of more than 1,300 works, adding about seventy new titles each year. The publisher became particularly known for its poetry collection, which includes both Portuguese-language poets and bilingual editions of major international poets. Its fiction list spans classic and contemporary authors from Portugal, Brazil, Europe and the United States. In non-fiction and humanities, it publishes foundational thinkers and contemporary essayists. The company operates an online store and continues to release new titles, with recent publications such as 'Sobre o Cálculo do Volume II' by Solvej Balle, winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize. According to Manuel Alberto Valente, editorial director of Porto Editora, Relógio D'Água has the best catalogue in Portuguese publishing.

• 2026

  Publication of 'Sobre o Cálculo do Volume II' by Solvej Balle, scheduled for 22 July 2026.

• 1983

  Founded in Lisbon, Portugal.

Independent publisher with a prestigious literary and essay catalogue, known for poetry and translations.

• Fiction, Award-winning books

  Sobre o Cálculo do Volume II

• Essays

  Velocidade Vertiginosa

• Fiction, Award-winning books

  Puro

• Fiction

  Vigília

• Fiction, Portuguese fiction

  As Noites Azuis

• Portuguese fiction

  Onde Queremos Viver

• Fiction

  Lotte em Weimar

• Fiction, Crime

  As Melhores Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes

• Essays, eBooks

  Sem Respeito

• Fiction, eBooks

  Terra

• Essays, Non-fiction

  O Homem Que Confundiu a Mulher com Um Chapéu

• Fiction

  Prosa Reunida

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2. 2SOBRE O CÁLCULO DO VOLUME II - Relógio D'Águarelogiodagua.pt
3. 3Relógio D'Águawikidata.org
4. 4Relógio D'Águapt.wikipedia.org