Éditions L'Harmattan, usually known simply as L'Harmattan (), is one of the largest French book publishers. It specialises in
non-fiction book
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s with a particular focus on
Sub-Saharan Africa
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. It is named after the
Harmattan
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, a
trade wind
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in West Africa.
Description
L'Harmattan was founded in 1975. In 2013 it produced 500 magazines and 2,000 new books per year, both in print and as e-books, and has a backlist of 38,000 books, 33,000 e-books, and 1,700 videos, with about a third each on Europe, Africa, and the rest of the world.
A third of its titles are in literature, a tenth in history, and 5 per cent each in philosophy, current affairs, education, politics, sociology, and fine arts. Slightly fewer are published in economics, psychology, ethnology, languages, etc., but even these categories have hundreds of titles, for example 500 in languages,
and more languages taught than almost any other publisher.
L'Harmattan controls costs by requiring authors to prepare electronic manuscripts in final format, not paying royalties on the first few hundred copies, and having short print runs of only a few hundred for its most specialized books.
It has sales of 8.5 million euros per year, of which 2 million are exported.
Book series
In 2021, L'Harmattan was publishing 1,300 "collections" (book series),
Index des collections
editions-harmattan.fr. Retrieved 6 December 2021. including the following:
* "Afrique au cœur des lettres" (series editor: Jean-Pierre Orban)
* "Éducateurs et Préventions" (series editor: Pascal Le Rest)
* "Parlons..." (series editor: Michel Malherbe) - a series of language and culture learning books
* "Poètes des cinq continents" (series editor: Philippe Tancelin)
* "Questions alimentaires et gastronomiques" (series editor: Kilien Stengel
Kilien Stengel (born 1972 in Nevers (Nièvre)), is a French gastronomic author, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He has worked at Gidleigh Park, Nikko Hotels, Georges V Hotel in Paris, and in a number of Relais & Châteaux restaurants (incl ...
)
* "Questions autochtones" (series editors: Simone Dreyfus-Gamelon, Patrick Kulesza et Joëlle Chassin)
* "Questions contemporaines" (series editor: Bruno Péquignot)
* "Questions sociologiques" (series editors: François Hainard et Franz Schultheis)
* "Univers musical" (series editor: Anne-Marie Green
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A Toronto native, Green earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Toronto and has a graduate degree in ...
)
See also
*Éditions Karthala
Karthala is a French publishing house specializing in the history, sociology, religion, languages and geopolitics of developing countries.
Its headquarters is at 22-24 boulevard Arago in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Karthala wa ...
*James Currey
James Currey is a former academic publisher specialising in African Studies which since 2008 has been an imprint of Boydell & Brewer. It is named after its founder who established the company in 1984. It publishes on a full spectrum of topics†...
- a defunct English publisher, specialising in sub-Saharan Africa
*Academic publishing
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*Electronic publishing
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*Language education
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*List of language self-study programs
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People
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Organizations
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* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
*List of publishers of children's books
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See also
* List of English language book publishers
* List of UK childre ...
*Periodical literature
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*Publishing
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