The first product with the TRUD’s logo is released on March 1st, 1936. However TRUD Publishing House was founded in 1992. In 1994 it is registered as a daughter company of Media Holding – a complex of several newspapers, namely Daily TRUD, Night TRUD and Weekly TRUD. Since 1997 the major shareholder in Media Holding is the German media giant WAZ. Now-a-days there are about 20 employees and more than 30 part-timers, among them are some of the best Bulgarian translators, editors, proofreaders and designers.
For these 15 years more than 700 titles were published with TRUD’s logo – fiction and non-fiction, in hardcover or in paperback. Some of our most outstanding titles and authors are: the memoirs of Sir Winston Churchill, the fundamental works of H. Kissinger The Diplomacy, Does America Need a Foreign Policy and The Crisis, the first unabridged edition of Dimitar Dimov’s Tobacco, the one volume Bulgarian Encyclopedia A to Z (in cooperation with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Who’s Who in Bulgaria, the Bible of every painter – Die Gestalt des Menschen and Die Gestalt des Tieres by prof. G. Bammes, a series of dictionaries – the bilingual pictorial dictionaries of Oxford-Duden, the Oxford Thesaurus, the English-Bulgarian Law Dictionary by the famous Bulgarian lawyer Mr. Danov, the Italian-Bulgarian Dictionary, the two volume Czech-Bulgarian Dictionary, the Greek-Bulgarian Dictionary, the Hebrew-Bulgarian Dictionary and many more.
Each of TRUD’s series is very well-known to the mass Bulgarian audience – The Chinese Mysteries by Robert van Gulik; The Japanese Mysteries by Lora J. Rowland; The Egyptian Mysteries by Paul Doherty, Top Secret – the biographies and memoirs of some of the world’s most famous spies and secret agents; the series Humor where you can read the works of authors like Woody Allen, Vonnegut, Jerome Jerome and many more. World’s Classics Trud consists of some of the finest literature – the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Dumas, Mark Twain, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Margaret Mitchell and many more. World’s Classics Trud lead to Selection 500 – limited number of editions, specially designed for bibliophiles. Unique for the local market are the two series for children - Water of Life and Great (Golden) Classics for Children where you can find the works of A.A.Miln, Grimm’s Brothers, Wilhelm Bush, Luis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, R.L.Stevenson and more.
Also, on our backlist you can find Selected by James Hadly Chase, Crime and Thriller – George Simenon, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Chesterton and many more.
For our young audience we have the world’s bestsellers Lost and Star Wars series, as well as The Tales of the Ottori.
