The number 555 of Humberto I Street in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Telmo is indelibly engraved in the History of publishing, both that of Argentina and that of the entire field of Spanish. It was there that the publishing house founded by a group of Argentine intellectuals and Spanish exiles was established in 1939: Victoria Ocampo, Carlos Mayer, Oliverio Girondo, Alfredo González Garaño and Rafael Vehils. This is how the Editorial Sudamericana was born with the purpose of making South American authors known and, at the same time, translating and disseminating contemporary foreign literature. After verifying their incompetence as entrepreneurs, the group of founders trusted in the choice of Vehils who, in order to carry out the project, sought an experienced publisher, Antonio López Llausás, who had left Spain because of the Civil War and who was in charge of the company until 1979. Years later, his children and grandchildren would take care of the leadership of Sudamericana to this day. Since 2001 it has been part of Penguin Random House and its titles are distributed in all the territories of the publishing group. In the history of Sudamericana you can find some of the main names of Argentine literature such as Julio Cortázar, Ernesto Sábato or Manuel Puig, Jorge Luis Borges or Leopoldo Marechal, and great international figures such as Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, William Faulkner and Albert Camus. One Hundred Years of Solitude, an inescapable point of reference of the Latin American boom and of all contemporary narrative written in Spanish, was published by Sudamericana in 1967 after several Spanish publishers rejected it. Sudamericana also introduced the self-help book in Argentina and the rest of Latin America, and created Piragua, one of the first collections of paperback books. Sudamericana keeps other collections open, such as Essay, which includes titles on history, sociology, economics and philosophy; Historical Narrative, with such important names as García Hamilton; the successful collection Investigación Periodística, with authors such as Andrés Oppenheimer, as well as Pan Flauta and Sudamericana Joven, prestigious collections of children's and young people's literature. And, as a beacon of Buenos Aires intellectual life, from the same building in the neighborhood of Humberto I Street.