Zakharov Books is one of the main Russian independent publishing houses.

Founded by the journalist Igor Zakharov in 1998 as a small independent publishing company, they gradually developed into an important publisher of popular and literary fiction. At the very beginning of their existence as an independent publishing, they discovered Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin

Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili , a Russian writer. He is an essayist, literary translator and writer of detective fiction.-Life and career:...

, and they still hold the rights to his best-selling books about Inspector Fandorin

Fandorin

Fandorin is a fictitious Russian surname in the novels of Boris Akunin.series protagonists:* Erast Fandorin * Nicholas Fandorin...

 that have been translated into most European languages. More than seven million copies of these books were sold in Russia alone. Among their other authors they list such writers as Vladimir Sorokin

Vladimir Sorokin

Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer and dramatist, one of the most popular in modern Russian literature.-Biography:...

, Venedikt Erofeyev, Sergey Gandlevsky, Vera Pavlova

Vera Pavlova

Vera Anatolyevna Pavlova is a Russian poet whose work has been published in The New Yorker.-External links:**...

 and Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

Anthony Kudryavitsky born in Moscow on 17 August 1954, better known by his pen name Anatoly Kudryavitsky , is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet and literary translator.-Biography:...

. Zakharov Books are also prominent as publishers of translated fiction, memoirs and biographies (more than four hundred titles appeared over the last ten years). .