Alianza Editorial

Alianza Editorial is a Spanish publishing house founded in 1966 by José Ortega Spottorno "with the idea of serving the intellectual aspirations of Spanish society of that time and represents, since then, a reference for various generations of readers who have known authors such as Clarín, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Proust, Freud, García Lorca, Albert Camus, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse and Franz Kafka," he states on his web page. Since 1989, Alianza has belonged to Grupo Anaya − which has, among other brands, Cátedra, Algaida, Eudemo and Siruala—which, in turn, is part of Hachette Livre, of the Lagardère Group.

Alianza began its journey with the Pocket Book collection, intended to be a basic library for anybody interested in culture. It maintains that its offerings support every class of reader, "from those interested in literature to the university student looking for a highly specialized monograph." In its catalogue, one can find the works of Manuel Castells, Julián Marías, Anthony Giddens, Ramón Tamames, Giovanni Sartori, Miguel Artola and Isaiah Berlin, to name only a few authors.