Anvil Publishing

Anvil Publishing, Inc.
Parent company	National Book Store
Status	Private
Founded	February 1990; 34 years ago
Founder	Karina Bolasco
Country of origin	Philippines
Headquarters location	7/F Quad Alpha Centrum Building, 125 Pioneer Street, Mandaluyong
Distribution	Nationwide
Publication types	Books
Imprints	Bliss Books;
Revenue	US$465.8 thousand (2019)
Owner(s)	Alexandra “Xandra” Ramos-Padilla
No. of employees	~51 to 200
Official website	www.anvilpublishing.com

Anvil Publishing, Inc., is the publishing arm of National Book Store. It publishes print books, e-books, and audiobooks.

Anvil is a nationwide book dealer to network servicing dealers in the Philippines which includes National Book Store (Anvil's parent company), Goodwill Book Store, Rex Book Store, and Solidaridad.^{[citation needed]}

Anvil is an eleven-time Publisher of the Year awardee of the National Book Awards, as cited by the Manila Critics Circle.^[4]

In 2016, founder Karina Bolasco left the company after 25 years.^[5]

In 2018, Anvil Publishing, under the imprint Anvil Audio,^[6] published its first audiobook titled Dear Universe: Poems on Love, Longing, and Finding Your Place in the Cosmos^[7] by Pierra Calasanz-Labrador and narrated by actress Joyce Pring.

Notable titles

El Filibusterismo. Translated by Almario, Virgilio.
Noli Me Tangere. Translated by Almario, Virgilio.
Yuson, Alfred A. Voyeurs & Savages.
Joaquin, Nick. The Woman Who Had Two Navels.
Joaquin, Nick. May Day Eve and Other Stories.
Joaquin, Nick. Tropical Baroque: Four Manileño Theatricals.
Bulosan, Carlos. America Is in the Heart.

Notable authors

Ambeth Ocampo

A public historian whose research covers the late nineteenth-century Philippines: its art, culture, and the heroes who figure in the birth of the nation. He writes a widely read editorial page column named "Looking Back" for the Philippine Daily Inquirer and moderates a growing Facebook fan page. Collections of his newspaper columns are anthologized on the Looking Back series of books.