Eksmo is one of the largest publishing houses in Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. Eksmo and its rival AST

AST (publisher)

AST is one of the largest book publishing companies in Russia. AST and its rival Eksmo together publish approximately 30% of all Russian books. The company is headed by Oleg Bartenev...

 together publish approximately 30% of all Russian books.

Established in 1991 as a small book-selling company, they gradually developed into a major player on the Russian market, discovering and developing detective novel authors such as Darya Dontsova

Darya Dontsova

Darya Dontsova - is a Russian writer of detective novels. She produced several dozen such commercially successful books and also kitchen books and three autobiographies....

 and Alexandra Marinina

Alexandra Marinina

Alexandra Marinina is a best-selling Russian writer of detective stories.-Biography:...

, as well as publishing works by Tatyana Tolstaya

Tatyana Tolstaya

Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family.- Family :She was born into a family of rich literary tradition. Her paternal grandfather was Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, an important Russian-Soviet writer known as 'the Red...

 and Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a critically acclaimed modern Russian novelist and short-story writer. She was born in the town of Davlekanovo in Bashkiria on February 21, 1943...

, Tatiana Vedenska

Tatiana Vedenska

Tatiana Vedenska is a widely known Russian writer, and novelist.-Biography:Tatiana was born in Moscow into the family of an engineer. Her great grandfather on her mother’s side was Sergey Vasilievich Baskakov, the Russian composer, a nobleman. Her great grandmother was a Polish gipsy. When...

, Viktor Pelevin. Eksmo is especially successful as an editor of science fiction and fantasy, it has exclusive contracts with Sergey Lukyanenko

Sergey Lukyanenko

Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko is a science fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer...

, Yuri Nikitin, Vasily Golovachev, Nick Perumov

Nick Perumov

Nick Perumov is the pen name of Nikolay Daniilovich Perumov , a Russian fantasy and science fiction writer.- Biography :Perumov was born November 21, 1963 in Leningrad, USSR. He began writing short stories since he was a teenager, and after reading The Lord of the Rings in the early 1980s, he...

, Vera Kamsha, Vadim Panov

Vadim Panov

Vadim Panov is a Russian fantasy and science fiction writer. He has written two series of books: The Secret Town and The Enclaves. He has also written the non series novel, Club Moscow. -The Secret Town:This series now contains 14 books:...

 and Alexey Pekhov.

Eksmo was the first to familiarise the Russian reader with Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl (series)

Artemis Fowl is a series of fantasy novels written by Irish author Eoin Colfer and all the books are best sellers, starring the teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II. The author summed up the series as: "Die Hard with fairies." There are seven novels in the series; the first was published in...

, a series of children's books by Irish writer Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer

Eoin Colfer is an Irish author. He is most famous as the author of the Artemis Fowl series, but he has also written other successful books. His novels have been compared to the works of J. K. Rowling...

. They also publish Dmitri Yemets

Dmitri Yemets

Dmitri Aleksandrovich Yemets is a Russian author of children's and young adult fantasy literature.He is most famous for his Tanya Grotter series and spin-offs, which he calls "a parody" or, alternatively, as "a sort of Russian answer" to Harry Potter. He has been repeatedly threatened, by J.K...

' Harry Potter

Harry Potter

Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by the British author J. K. Rowling. The books chronicle the adventures of the adolescent wizard Harry Potter and his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

-derived Tanya Grotter

Tanya Grotter

Tanya Grotter is the female protagonist of a Russian fantasy novel series by Dmitri Yemets. Tanya Grotter is an orphan with intentional resemblances to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter...

series.

The Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

-based publishing house is home to many writers living outside of Russia, including in the United States

United States

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, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 and Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

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