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The Diogenes Verlag (short: Diogenes) is a Swiss publisher in Zurich, founded in 1952 by Daniel Keel, with a focus on literature, plays and cartoons. It has been managed since 2012 by the founder's son, Philipp Keel.

Program

The publisher's focus is literature, contemporary authors in several languages as well as classics of world literature. Other fields are art, cartoons, children's literature, detective stories and audio books. Tomi Ungerer created coloured illustration for Das große Liederbuch, a collection of songs. Titles have included religious texts such as Die Bergpredigt. Aktuelle Texte aus dem Neuen Testament, poetry (Die schönsten Gedichte von Bertolt Brecht), philosophy such as Albert Camus' Weder Opfer noch Henker. Über eine neue Weltordnung, letters such as Georges Simenon's Brief an meine Mutter and Albert Einstein/Sigmund Freud's Warum Krieg?, and Eastern wisdom including Worte großer Meister and Krishnamurti's Meditation.

Authors

Authors published by Diogenes include: Joan Aiken, Margery Allingham, Eric Ambler, Alfred Andersch, Jakob Arjouni, Honoré de Balzac, Ray Bradbury, Rainer Brambach, Gwendoline Butler, Anton Chekhov, Raymond Chandler, Paulo Coelho, Andrea De Carlo, Charles De Coster, Luciano De Crescenzo, Charles Dickens, Philippe Djian, Rolf Dobelli, Doris Dörrie, Jessica Durlacher, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, William Faulkner, Federico Fellini, Anne Fine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, Dick Francis, Celia Fremlin, Friedrich Glauser, Nikolai Gogol, René Goscinny, Jeremias Gotthelf, Arnon Grünberg, Robert van Gulik, Erich Hackl, Dashiell Hammett, Otto Jägersberg, Janosch, Gottfried Keller, Hans Werner Kettenbach, Andrej Kurkow, Hartmut Lange, D. H. Lawrence, Donna Leon, Hugo Loetscher, Loriot, Ross Macdonald, Ludwig Marcuse, W. Somerset Maugham, Margaret Millar, Molière, Brian Moore, Sibylle Mulot, Magdalen Nabb, Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Nigg, Ingrid Noll, Amélie Nothomb, Seán O'Faoláin, George Orwell, Liaty Pisani, Christoph Poschenrieder, Laurens van der Post, Joachim Ringelnatz, Saki, Bernhard Schlink, Arthur Schopenhauer, Meir Shalev, Alan Sillitoe, Georges Simenon, Aleksandr Zinovyev, Henry Slesar, Jason Starr, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Strittmatter, Patrick Süskind, Martin Suter, Andrzej Szczypiorski, Susanna Tamaro, Jim Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, B. Traven, Mark Twain, Fred Uhlman, Tomi Ungerer, Jules Verne, Walter Vogt, Robert Walser, Valerie Wilson Wesley, Urs Widmer, Oscar Wilde, Leon de Winter, Cornell Woolrich and Banana Yoshimoto.

Drawing

Internationally known drawers and cartoonists have been published from the beginning, including Jean Bosc, Chaval, Paul Flora, Edward Gorey, Loriot, Luis Murschetz, Sempé, Roland Topor, F. K. Waechter and Reiner Zimnik. Some of the artists illustrated other books or created drawings of title pages for Diogenes. Children's books included works by Philippe Fix and Maurice Sendak.





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