Editorial Verbum
Corporate brand
UnclaimedMadrid-based Spanish publishing house founded in 1990, specializing in Hispanic literature, literary studies and the humanities.
Last updated September 16, 2026
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Overview
Editorial Verbum is a Spanish publishing house founded in Madrid in 1990 by Pío Serrano and Aurora Claviño as a tribute to the magazine Verbum, created in Havana in 1937 by José Lezama Lima, Gastón Baquero and other members of the Grupo Orígenes. Since 2012 it has been directed by the Hispano-Cuban writer Luis Rafael Hernández, and it reports a catalogue of more than 3,000 published titles. It specializes in Hispanic literature, literary studies and the humanities, with reference collections such as Verbum Mayor, Verbum Menor and Verbum Ensayo, a Serie Literatura Coreana (1997), a Biblioteca Cubana collection, a Literatura Árabe line, and a comics and graphic-novel collection.
History
Editorial Verbum was founded in Madrid in 1990 by Pío Serrano and Aurora Claviño as a tribute to the magazine Verbum, created in Havana in 1937 by José Lezama Lima, Gastón Baquero and other members of the Grupo Orígenes. Since 2012 it has been directed by the Hispano-Cuban writer Luis Rafael Hernández and reports a catalogue of more than 3,000 published titles. Its catalogue includes the Verbum Mayor, Verbum Menor and Verbum Ensayo collections, a Serie Literatura Coreana launched in 1997, a Biblioteca Cubana collection, a Literatura Árabe line, and a comics and graphic-novel collection. The house also runs a Premio Internacional de Ensayo Humanístico, whose sixth edition was decided in 2026.
Products and positioning
Described as one of the most prestigious publishers in Spain, recognized in literary as well as academic and scientific spheres.
Verbum Mayor
Verbum Menor
Verbum Ensayo
Serie Literatura Coreana
Biblioteca Cubana
Literatura Árabe
Colección de Cómics y Novela Gráfica
Sources5 sources
- 1Libros en papel y digital - Editorial Verbumeditorialverbum.es
- 2Sobre nosotros - Editorial Verbumeditorialverbum.es
- 3Consideraciones sobre Augustus de Liliana Bellone - Editorial Verbumeditorialverbum.es
- 4Jorge Camacho conversa sobre «Contra el horror» - Editorial Verbumeditorialverbum.es
- 5wikidata.orgwikidata.org
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