
The Netherlands, 1946
founder of Atlas Publishers
Emile Brugman
Emile Brugman was a bookseller and editor and, until his retirement in 2001, director of Amstel Publishers and publisher at Atlas, the publishing house he founded in 1991 with Ellen Schalker. Among the authors of Atlas were Cees Nooteboom and Boudewijn Büch, making it a leading literary publishing house.