History

Lege Artis Publishing House is the winner of the Annual Prize of the Bulgarian Book Association for the best edition of 2000. Every year its books are nominated for the same prize. It also won “Christo Danov” National Prize for design, given by the Ministry of Culture and the National Book Centre.

Lege Artis Publishing House was founded in September 1999, with a location in Pleven, Bulgaria. It is humanities-orientated – towards the fields of psychology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, fiction, and auto/biographical prose, but its publishing policy is wide-open. We publish 10-13 books per a year.

Lege Artis’ various teams put forth or is preparing such wonderful editions of books by (and about) authors as Mohamed Mbugar Sar (Senegal), Miguel Bonnefoy, Boris Vian, Georges Perec, Pierre Bourgeade, Daniel Pennac, Pascal Quignard, R. Gary, E.-E. Schmitt, Irene Nemirovsky, Andrei Makine, Eugene Ionesco, Michele Lesbre, Leila Slimani (France), M. Frisch , C. G. Jung, Jolande Jacobi, Aniela Jaffe (Switzerland), Victor Frankl, Robert Menasse, Wilhelm Reich (Austria), Maggy Antony (UK), Thimoty Findley, Robertson Davies, H. Ellenberger (Canada), Adriaan van Dis, J.-F. C. Van Delden, Max Velthuijis (The Netherlands), E. Drewermann, Martisn Guelich, (Germany), Erel Shalit (Israel), Elias Canetti, Neda Antonova, Momchil Nikolov,  etc.

Lege Artis is in good cooperation with world-known publishers as Paul and Peter AG, Suhrkamp, Gallimard, Albin Michel, Patmos, Inner City Books, Chiron Publications, The Knopf Doubleday Group, Hachette, W Reich Institute, Estate of Viktor Frankl, Paul Zsolnay Verlag, EDITIONS STOCK etc.

Lege Artis regularly takes part with a separate bookstall at the Spring and Winter National and International Book Fairs in Sofia.