José Olympio Editora

José Olympio Editora is one of the most influential publishing houses in Brazil. In the 1940s and 1950s, it became the largest publisher in the country, publishing 2,000 titles with 5,000 editions, reaching, in the 1980s, the mark of 30 million books by 900 national authors and 500 foreigners. Their catalog included prominent authors and thinkers like Manuel Bandeira, Raquel de Queirós, Fernando Sabino, Ligia Fagundes Telles, Jorge Amado, Érico Veríssimo, Euclides da Cunha, Monteiro Lobato, Graciliano Ramos, to cite a few.