ABOUT US

Turner was founded in 1973 by Manuel Arroyo Stephens, three years after his bookshop of the same name opened its doors on Madrid’s calle Génova. For several years, the Turner publishing house and bookshop were the only haven for authors and titles that, in a Spain still under a dictatorship, had been cast into neglect or fallen foul of the censors. It was in that spirit that Turner brought to light works by writers uncongenial to the Franco regime, such as José Bergamín, María Zambrano, Rafael Alberti and Jorge Guillén, and the Biblioteca del 36, a “library” of thirty-six facsimiles of 1930s literary magazines.

By 1978, Turner was drawing together celebrated writers and visual artists to create limited editions of artists’ books. In the 1980s, Turner expanded its catalogue with new series like Itálica – exquisitely produced limited editions of classical works both prose and poetry– and Turner Música, comprising essays by music historians and biographies of major composers and performers.

Starting in the late 1980s, Turner cultivated increasingly close ties with Mexico, and established a subsidiary there in 2002. With the addition to its list of the new series Armas y Letras, Noema and Literatura y Memoria, it further cemented its presence in the Spanish-speaking book world in both Europe and Latin America.

Over the past twenty years, Turner has become an expert provider of publishing services to third parties, producing exhibition catalogues for leading Spanish and international museums, galleries and art centres, and institutional and corporate books commissioned by major public and private clients.

Since 1996, Turner has applied its expertise to designing and producing Revista de Libros. Supported by Fundación Caja Madrid, one of Spain's largest philanthropic institutions, Revista de Libros has become the foremost review of books.

Its depth of know-how and experience, its team of highly qualified and dedicated people, and its guiding principles of diligence, quality and meticulous attention to detail have made Turner a publishing house of rare distinction. In the years to come, it will be our honour and our pleasure to continue creating great books.