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

| key_people = 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[http://read.ru/pubhouse/982 read.ru Publishing Houses] in 1988[http://read.ru/pubhouse/982 read.ru Publishing Houses][http://www.livelib.ru/selection/612 LiveLib Book Reviews][http://www.inbooker.com/ru/member/cd742 InBooker] as a small independent publishing company, they gradually developed into an important publisher of fiction that brings out about sixty books per year.[http://kuchaknig.ru/show_book.php?book=26581 KuchaKnig interviewing Olgerd Libkin] 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[http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/224800 ozon.ru Strugatsky] and by the Polish writer Stanislaw Lem.[http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/1816542 ozon.ru Lem] 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, Evgeny Evtushenko, Gennadiy Prashkevich, Anatoly Kudryavitsky, Leonid Girshovich, Stanislav Rassadin. Text Publishers are also prominent as publishers of translated fiction, including Samuel Beckett, Pascal Bruckner, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio and 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.{{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}}