Yesterday, Monday, June 3, the renowned Chilean publisher Joaquín Sabaté, founder in 1983, along with a small group of friends, of the prestigious Spanish publishing house Ediciones Urano, passed away at the age of 90, in Barcelona.
according to a press release issued by the publishing house.
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1934, Sabaté, whose parents were of Catalan origin, settled in Barcelona in the 1960s. He received a degree in economics from the Catholic University of Chile and a PADE from IESE. In Spain, while still studying at the University of Navarra, he joined the Pomaire publishing house as Financial Director, with the aim of assisting in its international expansion, a publishing house of which he would end up being one of the shareholders.
After the demise of Pomaire, Sabaté founded Ediciones Urano, where he was CEO until 2005 and subsequently served as president. At Urano, he was one of the pioneers in publishing self-help and personal development books. Among the multiple titles of Ediciones Urano, bestsellers of the caliber of The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, which saw the light in Umbriel; and “¿Quién se ha llevado mi queso?” by Spencer Johnson, in the Empresa Activa label, have been published in Spanish.
