Tänapäev Publishers was founded in 1999. The main field of activity is publishing books. Tänapäev publishes titles on subjects in the following fields: fiction, history, current events, popular science, reference, biographies, health, children’s literature and humour books.

In year 2000 Tänapäev published 45 books, in 2025 about 140 new titles. In 25 years we have published over 3000 titles.

In translated fiction the most prominent series is called “The Red Book”, featuring authors like Oscar Wilde, Kurt Vonnegut, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Paul Auster, Ian McEwan, John Irving, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jeanette Winterson and many others. Authors include also Nobel-prize winners like Günter Grass, Mario Vargas Llosa, Svetlana Alexyevich, Daniel Kahneman, Wiliam Golding and many others. Series currently includes over 120 titles. Tänapäev also publishes several popular crime authors such as Boris Akunin, Robert van Gulik, M.C. Beaton, Colin Dexter and Peter James. The non-fiction list includes many titles on history and politics, both from recent and ancient times.

About two thirds of our titles are translations. Most of our translations are from English, but also Russian, German, French, Scandinavian languages, Spanish, Italian and smaller languages.