Luitingh-Sijthoff
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| Parent company | |
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| Status | Active |
| Founded | 1851 (Sijthoff), 1947 (Luitingh) 1989 (merged) |
| Founder | Albertus Willem Sijthoff |
| Country of origin |
 Netherlands
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| Headquarters location | Amsterdam |
| Distribution | Dutch language market |
| Imprints | Luitingh, Sijthoff, Poema Pocket, Luitingh Fantasy, Uitgeverij Luitingh, Mouria |
| Official website | luitingh-sijthoff.nl |
Luitingh-Sijthoff is a publishing company based in the Netherlands that releases fiction and nonfiction books for the Dutch language market. It is a subsidiary of Dutch conglomerate NDC VBK de uitgevers.
The A.W. Sijthoff company was founded by Albertus Willem Sijthoff in Leiden in 1851 and Luitingh was established in 1947. Sijthoff, who rose to prominence in the trade of translated books, was opposed to a petition for the Netherlands to become a signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in 1899 because he felt that the international copyright restrictions would stifle the country's publishing industry. The Sijthoff office was attacked by car bomb after the Haagsche Courant, owned at the time by the Sijthoff family, printed a negative article about business activities in the 1980s by a collection agency owned by Dutch criminal Eef Hoos.
In 1989, the A.W. Sijthoff and Luitingh publishing companies merged to form Luitingh-Sijthoff, which is headquartered in Amsterdam.
The books in Luitingh-Sijthoff's catalogue are published under a number of specialized imprints, including Luitingh, Luitingh Fantasy, Mouria, Poema-Pocket, Sijthoff, and Uitgeverij L.
Luitingh publishes Dutch versions of popular English language novels by writers such as Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Robert Ludlum and Thomas Harris.
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