Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based

publishing house Publishing is the activity of making information, literature, music, software and other content available to the public for sale or for free. Traditionally, the term refers to the creation and distribution of printed works, such as books, newsp ...

established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by

Hachette Livre Hachette () is a French publisher. Founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif, the company later became L. Hachette et Compagnie, Librairie Hachette, Hachette SA and Hachette Livre in France. After acquiring an Australian publisher, Hachette ...

. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard.

Claude Durand Claude Durand (1938–2015) was a French publisher, translator and writer. He worked in the French film industry editing films, and occasionally writing and directing. He published leading authors such as Solzhenitsyn and Houellebecq, and toge ...

was director of Fayard from 1980 until his retirement in 2009. He was replaced by Olivier Nora, previously head of Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle another division of the Hachette group. On 6 November 2013, Nora was replaced by Sophie de Closets, who officially took over at the beginning of 2014. In December 2009, Hachette Littérature (publisher of the ''Pluriel'' pocket collection) was absorbed by Fayard. Isabelle Seguin, the director of Hachette Littérature, became literary director of Fayard.

Imprints

Fayard has three imprints: * Editions Mille et Une Nuits * Editions Mazarine * Pauvert

Works published

Works published by Editions Fayard include: *''Dictionnaire de la France médiévale'' by French historian Jean Favier * ''Les Égarés'' by French writer Frederick Tristan which was awarded the 1983

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...

*''Sorbonne Confidential'' by

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author

Laurel Zuckerman Laurel Zuckerman (born 1960) is an American author based near Paris, France. Biography Zuckerman is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, but now lives in France. She graduated from the HEC School of Management, a French business school. Until ...

*''Tropic Moon'' by

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writer

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...

Collections Collection or Collections may refer to: * Cash collection, the function of an accounts receivable department * Collection (church), money donated by the congregation during a church service * Collection agency, agency to collect cash * Collection ...

* La Bibliothèque universelle de poche (1894) * Modern-Bibliothèque (1904) * Le Livre populaire (1905) * Le Livre de demain (1923-1947) * Leçons inaugurales du

Collège de France The Collège de France (), formerly known as the ''Collège Royal'' or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment ('' grand établissement'') in France. It is located in Paris n ...

(1950) * Voici la France (1958) * Recherches avancées (series editor:

Raymond Abellio Georges Soulès (11 November 1907 – 26 August 1986), known by his pen name Raymond Abellio, was a French writer. Life Abellio went to the École Polytechnique and then took part in the X-Crise Group. He advocated far-left ideas, but like man ...

) (1974) * Les Enfants du fleuve (series editor: Jean-Claude Didelot) (1990) * Pour une histoire du XXe siècle (1991) * Histoire de la pensée (1999) * Fayard noir (2004-2009) * À venir (series editor:

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie Geoffroy de Lagasnerie (born 1981), is a French far-left philosopher and sociologist. He is the author of several books, articles and lectures pertaining to social and political philosophy, epistemology and critical theory, and the sociology ...

) (2009)

References

External links

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