About Znak

ZNAK was founded in 1959 in answer to a call from the weekly newspaper Tygodnik Powszechny to preserve in book form the work of those writing for it and for the monthly Znak. Despite all sorts of obstacles, including censorship, political upheavals and the tough demands of capitalism, Znak is doing well on the publishing market and is achieving success. For the past few years Znak has been the best literary publisher in Poland and we have been very successful as far as the sales of both adult and children’s literature are concerned.

In our publishing work we meet a wide range of needs, producing publications that interpret the world, mankind, history and the modern era, through to top-quality fiction and non-fiction, as well as light reading and books for the youngest generation.

Our list includes Nobel Prize winners and bestselling authors such as J.M. Coetzee, Mario Vargas Llosa, Wisława Szymborska., Czesław Miłosz, Margaret Atwood, John Banville, Zadie Smith, Ryszard Kapuściński, Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Ian Mc Ewan, Malcolm Gladwell, and JJ. Sempe& R. Goscinny. We know very well how to promote authors and how to achieve high sales figures.