National authors had to resort to self-publishing with minimal print runs to disseminate their works, since there were no means for books to circulate throughout the country.
[7] This publication brought Carlos George-Nascimento significant profits, reaffirming his idea that a publishing company had great prospects in Chile.
This marked the beginning of his brilliant publishing career and that year he undertook the task of printing the first edition in Chile of Gabriela Mistral's Desolación.
One of his greatest contributions was the publication of the series of autobiographies of Chilean writers, based on the conferences ¿Quién es quién en las letras chilenas?, which were called ¿Quién soy?
[13] In 1986, after 111 years of prolific career, Editorial Nascimento had to close its doors, thus ending a relevant stage in the history of Spanish-language literature of the 20th century.
[1] According to his granddaughter, censorship in Chile was due to the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and the lack of modernization of the business model, which was then in the hands of George Nascimento's sons.
[14] In March 2014, Felipe Reyes published the fourth biography of his life, entitled Nascimento: el editor de los chilenos.
[18] On December 1, 2017, the British Library celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of Nascimento Publishing House in London - in the main auditorium with the participation of Bianca Jagger, Rosana Manso, the editor Bill Swainson and Neruda's biographer, Adam Feinstein - and, in particular, the emphasis was placed on its relationship with its best-known writer, Pablo Neruda, who was published from the beginning of his career until his final days by Nascimento.