Animal Extinto

Animal Extinto (also styled Animal Extinto Editorial) is an independent Colombian publishing project founded in 2015 by Lucia Buitrago and Edgar Blanco. Based in Bogotá, the press describes itself as choosing writings or ideas of great value and turning them into books, with an independent editorial criterion. Although it does not present itself as a specialized publisher, it has defined its line as the publication of literary and philosophical works. The catalogue is organized into three collections: El solitario, Rorqual, and Capriccio Stravagante. Through these series the press aims to build a network of works that expand or connect the ideas it cares about most, ideas concerned with proposing a new imaginary for a better society. The press works in Bogotá but notes that it comes from the hills, to which it hopes to return with the calm of a duty fulfilled. Animal Extinto operates as a small press, a characterization also reflected in its Wikidata entry. It maintains an online store and social media presence on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and its editorial work has been recognized in cultural commentary; the writer Francisco Burbano, in Razón Pública, described the press as having become a genuine school, guided by patiently and rigorously cultivated sensibility and a certain nostalgia that leads it to seek in the making of earlier books a renewing possibility for the books to come.

Animal Extinto is a Colombian editing and publishing project founded by Lucia Buitrago and Edgar Blanco in 2015. From its base in Bogotá, the press adopted an independent editorial criterion, selecting writings or ideas of great value and turning them into books. While it does not claim to be a specialized publisher, it defined its editorial line as the publication of literary and philosophical works. Over time the catalogue took shape around three collections: El solitario, Rorqual, and Capriccio Stravagante. Through these series, Animal Extinto seeks to configure a network of works that broaden or connect the ideas that interest it most — ideas tied to proposing a new imaginary for a better society. The press works in Bogotá while acknowledging its origins in the hills, to which it hopes to return with the calm of a duty fulfilled. The project has been characterized as a small press, and its work has drawn cultural commentary. In Razón Pública, Francisco Burbano wrote that the publishing house has managed to become a genuine school, guided by a sensibility cultivated with patience and rigor, and by a certain nostalgia that has led it, like so many others, to look in the making of earlier books for a renewing possibility for the books to come. Animal Extinto maintains an online store and an active presence on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

• 2015

  Animal Extinto is founded in Bogotá by Lucia Buitrago and Edgar Blanco.

Independent small press publishing literary and philosophical works, organized in three curated collections.

• El solitario collection

• Rorqual collection

• Capriccio Stravagante collection

1. 1inicio - Animal Extinto Editorialanimalextinto.com
2. 2Nosotros - Animal Extinto Editorialanimalextinto.com
3. 3Animal Extintowikidata.org