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Lannoo

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Lannoo
IndustryPublishing
Founded1909
HeadquartersTielt,Belgium
Key people
Jorris Lannoo (1891-1971)
Godfried Lannoo (1927-2012)
Matthias Lannoo
ProductsBooks, audio books, databases, e-books
Websitelannoo.com

Uitgeverij Lannoo Groepis a Belgian publishing group, based inTielt,with assets in Belgium and the Netherlands. Its Belgian subsidiary is Uitgeverij Lannoo. Its Dutch subsidiary is LannooMeulenhoff. Over the years Lannoo evolved from Catholic and Flemish to an open, commercial publishing house.[1]

Uitgeverij Lannoo

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The publishing and printing companyLannoowas founded in 1909 by Joris Lannoo (1891–1971). Joris Lannoo was a member of theFlemish Movement.The original company logo, featuring a sailing Viking neck, was designed byJoe Englishand modernized over the years. After Joris Lannoo, Jan and Godfried Lannoo took over the management of the company. In 1991 the publisher company spun off Lannoo Printers (the printing company went bankrupt in 2018). The French-languageÉditions Racinewas founded in 1993. In 1994 Godfried Lannoo resigned as general manager to be replaced by his son Matthias Lannoo. In 1999 Lannoo acquired the Dutch publishing houseTerra Zutphenand reorganized it intoTerraLannoo.In 2003 the company set up its own scientific publishing house in Leuven,LannooCampus.In 2010, the company acquired the Dutch publishersMeulenhoff BoekerijandUnieboek Het Spectrum.Since then, Lannoo publishes literature again, an activity that had almost fallen silent in the second half of the 20th century. In 2015, the publishing group acquired the Belgian publisherAcademia Press.

Uitgeverij Lannoois a Belgian publishing company, based inTielt,with three subsidiaries:

  • Distrimedia – since 1994 in charge of the distribution of own imprints and other companies, also in Tielt.
  • Lannoo Graphics
  • Lannoo Uitgeverij

LannooMeulenhoff

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LannooMeulenhoff is a Dutch publishing company, based inAmsterdam,with three subsidiaries.

Meulenhoff Boekerij

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Meulenhoffwas founded in 1895 byJohannes Marius Meulenhoff.Over the years, it built a reputation publishing literary works in original Dutch and in translation.[2]For many decades, the company was led by Laurens van Krevelen, who received theJan Hein Donner Award(a prestigious Dutch prize, awarded once every five years to notable persons in the publishing industry) in 2007.[3]Meulenhoff was acquired by the books division ofPCM Uitgevers,then by Lannoo.

In 2001, Meulenhoff was rocked by the departure of long-time editor Tilly Hermans, for which the Dutch and other media blamed the corporate culture of then ownerPCM Uitgevers.[2]PCM, it was said, cared more for the bottom line than for the company's authors and editors, and was blamed for a "purge" that also led to the early retirement of van Krevelen.[4]After more than thirty years with Meulenhoff Hermans founded Augustus, a smaller publishing house. Thirty authors followed her to the new publishing house, includingRudy KousbroekandAdriaan van Dis).[5]Others who left wereMaarten BiesheuvelandStefan Hertmans.[6]

Authors published by Meulenhoff include:Alicia Austin,Maarten Biesheuvel.[7]Roberto Bolaño,[8]Stefan Hertmans,[6]Annemarie Kindt,Mario Vargas Llosa,[9]Carl Lundgren,E. L. de Marigny, Jaime Martijn,Gabriel García Márquez,[9]andElie Wiesel[10]M=SFwas ascience fictionandfantasynovels series by Meulenhoff.

Imprints ofMeulenhoff Boekerijinclude:

  • Arena
  • Boekerij- novels
  • Forum
  • Meulenhoff- literature
  • Mynx

Unieboek Het Spectrum

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Het Spectrumwas established in 1935 by book sellers P.H. Bogaard and A.H. Bloemsma. Its first location was a room above a bakery in deBiltstraatinUtrecht.Het Spectrum started as aprogressive-Catholicpublisher that aspired to supply good reading materials to the masses. Hence it published many pocket books. AfterWorld War II,this formula continued asPrisma Pockets.Among the pocket books were translated classics for the modest price of 1,25guilder.The Prisma dictionaries were also part of this line. Gradually the publishing company became one of the largest in the Netherlands. Dutch authors that have been published through the Het Spectrum imprints includeGodfried Bomans,Han van Bree, Hubrecht Duijker,L. T. F. Gamut,Ben Tiggelaar, andJanwillem van de Wetering.International authors includeDorothy Parker,Dr. Phil,Peter Singer,Edgar Wallace,andP. G. Wodehouse.

Unieboekwas founded 1968 by Cornelis Anthonie Jacobus van Dishoeck (1921−1990), grandson and namesake of the publisher Cornelis Anthonie Jacobus van Dishoeck (1863−1931). The publisher included the imprintsVan Holkema & Warendorf,Van Goor,Van Reemst,andLifestyle & Wellbeing.Authors published by Unieboek and its subsidiaries includeSuzanne Collins,Marion van de Coolwijk, Arend van Dam, Jaap ter Haar, Vivian den Hollander, Rik Hoogendoorn, Bouke Jagt, Jan van der Made, Tosca Menten, Mirjam Mous, Francine Oomen, Janneke Schotveld, Ben Tiggelaar (also at Het Spectrum),Jacques Vriens,Dolf de Vries,and Harm de Jonge.

In September 1999, Het Spectrum was acquired by PCM Uitgevers. PCM was acquired byDe Persgroepin 2003. Lannoo acquired Het Spectrum in 2010.

In 2018Unieboek Het Spectrumoperates fromHoutenthrough the following imprints (with specializations):

  • Best of YA– novels
  • Van Dishoeck– food & beverage books
  • Van Holkema & Warendorf– fiction books for all ages, lifestyle
  • Van Goor– children's books, juvenile books
  • Mana– new age
  • Prisma– langue books
  • Van Reemst– travel guides in the series Capitool, Marco Polo, Nelles Gidsen and Dutch translations ofRough Guides
  • Spectrum– nonfiction
  • Winkler Prins– encyclopedias

TerraLannoo

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Uitgeverij TerraLannoo is in charge of sales and marketing in the Netherlands of publications by the Belgian publishers Terra, Lannoo, and Lannoo Campus.

It also manages theMichelinpublications in the Netherlands.

References

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  1. ^M.A. Wilssens; R. Vanlandschoot; M. Reynebeau.De toekomst is al begonnen. 100 jaar Uitgeverij Lannoo. Het verhaal van een voorzichtige durver[The future has already begun. 100 years of publishing Lannoo. The story of a cautious daredevil]. Tielt: Lannoo.ISBN978 90 209 8637 2.
  2. ^ab"Meulenhoff en PCM".de Volkskrant.Amsterdam.2001-09-07.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  3. ^"J.H. Donnerprijs voor Laurens van Krevelen".Literatuurplein. 2007-10-15.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  4. ^Lottman, Herbert R. (2001-01-08)."Executives Exit Meulenhoff (purge by parent company)".Publishers Weekly.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  5. ^"Een moeder met thee".Trouw.Amsterdam.2002-08-09.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  6. ^ab"Stefan Hertmans maakt overstap naar De Bezige Bij".Literatuurplein. 2005-01-07.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  7. ^"P.C. Hooft-prijs voor J.M.A. Biesheuvel".Nu.nl.2006-12-15.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  8. ^"Archimboldi en de verdwenen schrijvers: Voorpublicatie Roberto Bolaño - 2666".8Weekly. 2009-02-27.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  9. ^ab"Meulenhoff gaat pockets uitgeven bij Rainbow".de Volkskrant.1995-04-14.Retrieved2009-10-13.
  10. ^Viaene, PieterJan (2007-10-15)."Rev. of Elie Wiesel,Nacht".Politics.be.Retrieved2009-10-13.
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