EKSMO
Eksmo (Russian: Эксмо) is one of the largest publishing houses in Russia.[1][2] Eksmo and AST (which it later acquired in 2012) together publish approximately 30% of all Russian books.[3]
Established in 1991 as a small book-selling company, Eksmo gradually developed into a major player in the Russian market, discovering and developing detective-novel authors such as Darya Dontsova and Alexandra Marinina, as well as publishing works by Tatyana Tolstaya, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Tatiana Vedenska, and Viktor Pelevin. Eksmo has become especially successful as a publisher of Russian science fiction and fantasy, with writers like Sergey Lukyanenko, Yuri Nikitin, Vasily Golovachev, Nick Perumov, Vera Kamsha, Vadim Panov and Tony Vilgotsky.[4]
Other book series published by Eksmo include the Mona Lisa series of Russian-language translations of authors such as Mary Stewart.[5]