Private company

Alfaguara

Logo: http://www.alfaguara.com/, Non-free logo, via Wikipedia3

Spanish publisher

Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Hispanic America, Spain and the United States. It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

Oct 1964Founded1
  • Industrypublishing1
  • HeadquartersMadrid1
  • Founded inMadrid1

Alfaguara is a Spanish-language publishing house that serves markets in Hispanic America, Spain and the United States. It was founded by the Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner Camilo José Cela.2

The story

Founded by Camilo José Cela and Jesús Huarte Beaumont on Oct 1964, in Madrid.1

Alfaguara was established in 1964. In 1980 it become part of Editoriales del Grupo Santillana. In March 2000 Santillana, which publishes over 117 million books each year, was acquired by the Spanish conglomerate PRISA. In 2014, PRISA sold Santillana's trade operations to Penguin Random House.

It awards the Alfaguara Prize, a prestigious Spanish-language literary award. The prize, launched in 1998, goes to an unpublished work of fiction in Spanish.

Alfaguara Infantil and Alfaguara Juvenil publish books for children and young people.

From Wikipedia’s article on Alfaguara, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

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Timeline

  1. Oct 1964Founded Founded in Madrid1

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