About ZNAK

Established in 1959 ZNAK Publishers ranks as one of the most important Polish publishing houses. More than just a publishing house, ZNAK has provided for over 60 years a forum for important debate and thus it made a major contribution to Polish culture.

ZNAK publishes about 400 new titles per year and in the past three years our yearly sales reached nearly 9 million copies. Our titles were translated into more than 20 languages and sold in more than 20 countries.

Our list includes Nobel Prize winners like Wisława Szymborska, Czesław Miłosz, J.M. Coetzee, Joseph Brodsky, Mario Vargas Llosa or Patrick Modiano. We also publish such authors as Zadie Smith, Ryszard Kapuściński, Wiesław Myśliwski, Paweł Huelle, Seamus Heaney, Ian McEwan, Malcolm Gladwell, J.K. Rowling, Lauren Groff, Donna Tartt, Lawrence Osborne, Katherine Boo, Andrew Miller, Hanif Kureshi, Jung Chang and George Saunders.

In order to better communicate with our readers, in 2010 we established four imprints: ZNAK, Znak Horyzont, Znak Literanova and Znak Emotikon. ZNAK provides a unique combination of tradition and change in producing books that deserve classic status. Znak Horyzont provides thoroughly rewarding material to satisfy the most demanding readers. Major topics and leading names, wide-ranging scope and profound analysis. Znak Literanova is focused on contemporary voices, which speak of current events and trends. Znak Emotikon is home to a number of the best children’s titles as Le Petit Nicolas by R. Goscinny and J-J. Sempé and The House of Secrets by Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini. In 2020 two new imprints joined ZNAK’s family: ZNAK Jednysłowem and ZNAK Koncept.

We see the future in the light of our basic ideas and our past and consequently we look for ways to further strengthen our position as publisher of the best and the most stimulating books in Poland.