# Text Publishers

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| native_name      = Текст
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| foundation       = 1988
| founder          = a consortium of science fiction writers
| location         = Moscow, Russia
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| area_served      = [Commonwealth of Independent States](/source/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States)
| key_people       = [Olgerd Libkin](/source/Olgerd_Libkin)
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'''Text Publishers''' ({{langx|ru|link=no|'''Издательство Текст'''}}) is one of the main Russian independent publishing houses.

Founded by a group of Russian science-fiction writers<ref>[http://read.ru/pubhouse/982 read.ru Publishing Houses]</ref> in 1988<ref>[http://read.ru/pubhouse/982 read.ru Publishing Houses]</ref><ref>[http://www.livelib.ru/selection/612 LiveLib Book Reviews]</ref><ref>[http://www.inbooker.com/ru/member/cd742 InBooker]</ref> as a small independent publishing company, they gradually developed into an important publisher of fiction that brings out about sixty books per year.<ref>[http://kuchaknig.ru/show_book.php?book=26581 KuchaKnig interviewing Olgerd Libkin]</ref> At the very beginning of their existence as an independent publishing, they focused on Russian and translated science fiction. In 1991, they published collected works by [Arkady and Boris Strugatsky](/source/Arkady_and_Boris_Strugatsky)<ref>[http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/224800 ozon.ru Strugatsky]</ref> and by the Polish writer [Stanislaw Lem](/source/Stanislaw_Lem).<ref>[http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1816542 ozon.ru Lem]</ref> In 1996, the new editorial director, Olgert Libkin, started publishing a wider range of fiction, including literary. Among their other authors they list such writers as [Kir Bulychev](/source/Kir_Bulychev), [Evgeny Evtushenko](/source/Evgeny_Evtushenko), [Gennadiy Prashkevich](/source/Gennadiy_Prashkevich), [Anatoly Kudryavitsky](/source/Anatoly_Kudryavitsky), Leonid Girshovich, and Stanislav Rassadin. Text Publishers are also prominent as publishers of translated fiction, including [Samuel Beckett](/source/Samuel_Beckett), [Pascal Bruckner](/source/Pascal_Bruckner), [Isaac Bashevis Singer](/source/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer), [Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio](/source/Jean-Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl%C3%A9zio) and [Nancy Huston](/source/Nancy_Huston). In 2006, the leading Russian literary critics, answering a questionnaire in the national newspaper ''Kultura'', named Text Publishers as one of the top seven Russian publishing houses.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kultura-portal.ru/tree_new/cultpaper/article.jsp?number=635&crubric_id=1003211&rubric_id=1000188&pub_id=734353|title=Kultura Newspaper No 14 (7524), 13th to 16th April 2006|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120803040213/http://www.kultura-portal.ru/tree_new/cultpaper/article.jsp?number=635&crubric_id=1003211&rubric_id=1000188&pub_id=734353|archivedate=3 August 2012}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Portal|Companies|Russia}}
* {{Official website|http://www.morven.livia.mensiversary}} {{in lang|ru}}

Category:Book publishing companies of Russia
Category:Companies based in Moscow
Category:Publishing companies of the Soviet Union

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