sources . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message emec editores parent company grupo planeta founded 1939 ; 77 years ago 1939 founder mariano medina del r o and lvaro de las casas country of origin argentina headquarters location buenos aires official website emec editores argentina emec editores is an argentine publishing house currently a subsidiary of grupo planeta . its catalogue contains books on history politics economics art religion anthropology biography memoirs children s literature humor cooking popular science self help and popular psychology and the complete works of various authors . contents 1 history 2 imprints 3 emec award 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 1939 by mariano medina del r o shortly after his arrival from spain with the literary collaboration of lvaro de las casas and the support of medina s former classmate carlos braun men ndez . emec s name is derived from the first letters of some of the founders names specifically mariano carlos medina and casas . in spanish m is pronounced eme and c ce . during its early years the company specialized in books about the region of galicia some written in the region s native language . in the subsequent decade the company established its flagship series the emec library of universal works la biblioteca emec de obras universales . to this day emec precedes its works with an epigram from miguel de cervantes to whom the series is dedicated that books are honest entertainment delight with their language and amaze and suspend disbelief with their invention . spanish sean de honesto entretenimiento deleiten con el lenguaje y admiren y suspendan con la invenci n. of the thousands of authors published by emec during the six decades of its existence two names stand out antoine de saint exup ry creator and illustrator of the little prince the most popular book published by emec ; and jorge luis borges arguably the most important argentine author of the 20th century whose work was edited and published by emec for forty five years . a group of distinguished collaborators edited several distinct collections at once . eduardo mallea created the navy the chimera and great essayists el nav o la quimera y grandes ensayistas . inspired by borges and adolfo bioy casares emec created the seventh circle el s ptimo c rculo a collection of detective fiction which has grown to include 350 titles including the major works of raymond chandler james m. cain and james hadley chase . where possible emec has attempted to include major works of artistic and cultural interest ranging from toynbee malraux matisse kandinsky francastel and huyghe to deluxe editions of don quixote . the house is known for its detailed coverage of argentine topics including mart n fierro the works of bonifacio del carril in particular his monumenta iconogr fica records of argentina s pre columbian inhabitants such as the inca and diaguita and the history of the gaucho . in 1948 beginning with the publication of the ides of march by thornton wilder and the stranger by albert camus emec established its great novelists collection which continues to this day . many celebrated writers including franz kafka william faulkner alberto moravia fran ois mauriac camilo jos cela ernest hemingway graham greene vladimir nabokov saul bellow jorge amado norman mailer ray bradbury have been included in the collection . it has since widened its scope to include writers of popular fiction such as arthur hailey erich segal frederick forsyth colleen mccullough stephen king john le carr leon uris tom clancy ken follett arthur c. clarke judith krantz mary higgins clark scott turow dean koontz michael crichton wilbur smith and sidney sheldon . however emec does not confine itself to works of fiction . it has published papillon by henri charri re roots by alex haley the road less traveled by m. scott peck as well as the works of leo buscaglia and jaime barylko . emec is one of the largest publishers in argentina . imprints edit emece publishes books under the following collections biblioteca jorge luis borges biblioteca adolfo bioy casares grandes novelistas grandes ensayistas biblioteca breve formentor seix barral cruz del sur lingua franca emec award edit in 1954 the emec literary prize spanish premio emec argentina was created and was the competition of its kind to be established in argentina . to this day it remains a means for new authors to gain recognition . quite a few literary figures achieved success as a result of winning the prize including beatriz guido dalmiro saenz griselda gambaro mar a esther de miguel mar a granata and ang lica gorodischer . they along with bioy casares ernesto sabato eduardo gudi o kieffer isidoro blaisten abelardo castillo abel posse and c sar aira number among more than three hundred argentine writers in the emec catalogue . references edit external links edit emec editores in the ibero american institute prussian cultural heritage foundation catalogue berlin emece catalogue at planeta libros site accessed 2016 09 24 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title emec editores & oldid 741923678 categories book publishing companies of argentinapublishing companies established in 19391939 establishments in argentinacompanies based in buenos aireshidden categories articles lacking sources from september 2016all articles lacking sourcesarticles with spanish language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal espa ol edit links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 14 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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