作家出版社是一家成立于1953年的国家级大型文学出版社，现有8个图书编辑室和《作家文摘》报社（国家级优秀文摘类报纸，周刊期发35万份）。全社员工100人，高级职称26人，中级职称39人。

　　2003年，作家出版社与一批颇负盛名的国家级的报、刊、社（抱括《文艺报》、《人民文学》、《诗刊》、《民族文学》、《中国作家》、《小说选刊》、《中国校园文学》、《环球企业家》以及中国作家网站等）组建成“中国作家出版集团”。作家出版社属下的图书发行公司是中国优秀的出版物发行公司，1300余家图书销售网点遍布全国各地。

　　中国文学大师冯雪峰、严文井等曾先后出任作家出版社社长、总编辑，耳濡目染，品格承传，致使作家出版社的人文品质卓越非凡。改革开放以来，特别是近几年，作家出版社更新观念，开拓进取，走出了一条适合中国出版业的改革之路。连年在全国文艺出版社销售排行榜上名列前茅，获得各种图书奖近百项。作家出版社已是中国出版业著名品牌，为海内外瞩目。

　　作家出版社曾以“当代小说文库”、“文学新星丛书”、“作家参考丛书”等囊括中外最优秀的当代文学作品的品牌享誉文坛，还以卓越的畅销书运作蜚声海内外，《哈佛女孩刘亦婷》发行170万册，倪萍的《日子》、韩寒的《三重门》以及《全国新概念作文大赛获奖作品选》等书都发行近百万册，是中国目前为止罕见的超级畅销书。在海外版权引进方面，作家出版社也卓尔不凡，曾与美国哈勃·考琳斯出版社、蓝登书屋、加拿大禾林公司、韩国熊津出版社等世界著名出版社合作，做了大量版权引进工作。

　　21世纪，世界最大的图书市场在亚洲，亚洲最大的图书市场在中国，而在这一全球最大市场的培育与开拓中，作家出版社将义无反顾、勇往前行。

A Brief Introduction of The Writers Publishing House

　　The Writers Publishing House is a state-leveled large-scale literature publishing house established in 1953, where there are 8 book editorial departments and an office of Writers' Digest (a weekly of state-wide excellence of the similar kind, with an amount of distribution as large as 0.35 million copies for each issue), with a faculty of 100 people, among whom there are 26 senior editors and 39 middle-rank ones.

　　In 2003, the Publishing House is forming "The Chinese Writers Publishing Group" with some other state-leveled presses and publishing houses, including Art and Literature Newspaper, People's Literature, Periodical of Selected Short Stories, Poetry, Chinese Writers, National Literature, China's Campus Literature, Global Entrepreneurs, etc.. The Book Distribution Corporation under the Writers Publishing House is one of the best in China, with a nation-wide selling net of 1300 shops throughout the country.

　　Great masters of Chinese literature such as Mao Dun, Feng Xuefeng, Ding Ling, Zhang Guangnian,… had been working in The Publishing House an president or editor-in-chief, imperceptibly influenced by their words and deeds and learning from them the moral character, the Publishing House possesses the superior quality of humanism. Since China adopted the policy of "reform and open" in 1978, especially in recent years, the Writers Publishing House, having renewed the concept and been enterprising and developing, has taken a reform way suited to China's publishing industry, and kept the front rank on the sailing list of art and literature publication in China for running years and won nearly 100 book award of various kinds. The Writers Publishing House has become a famous brand of China's publishing house, attracting the attention both at home and abroad.

　　The Writers Publishing House enjoys the good fame over the literary arena for such publication as Contemporary Novels Series and Reference Book Series for Writers, that involve the best modern and current literary works both Chinese and foreign; and is even famous overseas for its splendid best sellers. For instance, Liu Yiting, a Harvard Girl was sold as many as 1.6 million copies; Days by Ni Ping, Three Successive Gates by Han Han and Selected Works Rewarded in the National Composition Competition of New Concept were all sold over a million copies, quite rare in China's book market so far. In the respect of introducing foreign copyright, the Publishing House has made great achievement as well, co-operating with world-famous publishing house such as Harper Collins, Random House of the U.S.A, Harlequin Enterprises Limited of Canada, Woongjin of Korea, etc.

　　In the 21st century, the world's largest book market will be in Asia, and the Asia's largest will be in China. In the cultivating and developing of the globe's largest book market, the Writers Publishing House will continue to do its best.