Random House Mondadori unites some of the most outstanding imprints in Spanish-language book publishing. Literary houses like Sudamericana, Lumen, Debate and Mondadori come together with imprints aiming for a wider audience Plaza & Janés, Grijalbo and DeBolsillo—and with others specialized in subject areas or audiences like the young adult and children’s publishers Montena and Beascoa.
Poetry and fiction, illustrated books, pocket books, practical guides and complete works... make up an extensive catalogue that reflects today’s cultural trends.
Debolsillo
In a certain way, DeBolsillo’s origins began in 1957 when innovative publisher Germán Plaza (Plaza & Janés) began to publish pocket books under the name of Libros Plaza. Since then, the popularity of these small- formatted books continues to grow and DeBolsillo, with close to 2,000 titles in its catalogue, has become the indisputable leader of the format throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The imprint edits and distributes its titles in all the Random House Mondadori territories.
DeBolsillo not only incorporates the titles from all of Random House Mondadori’s imprints into its line, but since 2003, it releases works from other publishing houses, as well as never before published books. This last aspect of DeBolsillo’s publishing plan clearly distinguishes the imprint from its competitors and makes it a prominent leader in Spain’s pocket book market.
Among its fiction collections are: "Best Seller", which compiles the works of writers such as Ken Follett, Julia Navarro, and Stephen King; "Contemporánea" ("Contemporary Fiction"), with some of the most important creators of the 20th century—Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Ernest Hemingway—, and of today—J. M. Coetzee, Gabriel García Márquez, Antonio Lobo Antunes and Javier Marías; "Clásicos" ("Classics"), which unites the oeuvres of the greatest authors who have marked the history of literature, from Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Fyodor Dostoevsky to Miguel de Cervantes and Francisco de Quevedo; and "Cisne" ("Swan"), which offers the best of romance, with novels by Nora Roberts, Mary Jo Putney and Sherrilyn Kenyon, among others.
Reflection and debate have their place in "Ensayo" ("Essay"), a nonfiction collection meant to rigorously tackle the topics of today and of all times. Jared Diamond, Fernando Savater, Eugenio Trías and Edward Said are only a few of the names that can be found in this catalogue. "Autoayuda" is a self-help collection of practical and spiritual books with celebrated authors like Wayne W. Dyer, John Gray and Spencer Jonhson. Finally, the "21" collection gives a space to new voices and trends, like those of David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk, Rodrigo Fresán, Jonathan Lethem and David Sedaris.
