Simone Gallimard (née Cornu; 5 December 1917 – 22 October 1995 ) was a French editor, leader of the
Mercure de France
The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
The gazette was published f ...
Libération
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'' (24 October 1995)
Career
Gallimard was the daughter of , a politician and a senior French official who was a senator, deputy before the war and secretary of state for fine arts in different governments, between 1951 and 1954. In 1939, she married
Claude Gallimard
Claude Gallimard (10 January 1914 – 29 April 1991) was a French publisher and business leader.
The son of Gaston Gallimard, he was, from 1976 to 1988, the head of the publishing house Gallimard, founded by his father in 1911.
Biography
C ...
, son of
Gaston Gallimard
Gaston Gallimard (; 18 January 1881 – 25 December 1975) was a French publisher.
He founded ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' in 1908, together with André Gide and Jean Schlumberger (writer), Jean Schlumberger.
In 1911 the trio established La N ...
, founder and boss of the publishing house Gallimard. The four children of this marriage were Francoise,
Christian
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,
Antoine
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The name is used in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, West Greenland, Haiti, French Guiana ...
and
Isabelle
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, all working in the book trade.
After the purchase in 1957 by his father-in-law Gaston Gallimard of
Mercure de France
The was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group.
The gazette was published f ...
, a publishing house founded in 1894 by
Alfred Vallette
Alfred Vallette (1858, Paris – 1935) was a French man of letters.
He founded (in 1890) and edited the ''Mercure de France'', a Symbolist review publication. His wife, Rachilde
Rachilde was the pen name and preferred identity of novelist a ...
, Simone Gallimard became its director in 1962 and CEO in 1969. She was surrounded by renown literary directors such as
Renaud Matignon
Renaud Matignon (1936 in Metz – 6 February 1998 in Paris) was a 20th-century French journalist and writer who worked particularly with ''Le Figaro'' and the '' Figaro littéraire''.
Career
Renaud Matignon made his debut in the press at the cul ...
,
Michel Cournot
Michel Cournot (1 May 1922 – 8 February 2007) was a French journalist, screenwriter and film director. As a writer he was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 1949 for ''Martinique''. His only film as a director, '' Les Gauloises bleues'', was ...
,
Paul Pavlowitch
Paul Pavlowitch (born February 5, 1942) is a French writer, editor and journalist. He trained as a lawyer and has worked in various jobs, including as a teacher, librarian, and translator. A relative of the well-known French author, Romain Gary, ...
,
Nicolas Bréhal
Nicolas Bréhal (Gérald Solnitzki) (6 December 1952 Paris – 31 May 1999 Levallois-Perret) was a French novelist and literary critic.
He was literary director at the ''Mercure de France'' and literary critic at ''Le Monde'' and ''Le Figaro''.
...
. Authors of this publishing house received enviable literary prizes:
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 ...
for
Andreï Makine
Andreï Sergueïevitch Makine (russian: Андрей Серге́евич Макин; born 10 September 1957) is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde.prix Renaudot for Salvat Etchart, prix Médicis for
Michel Butel
Michel Butel (19 September 1940 – 26 July 2018) was a French journalist and novelist. He won the Prix Médicis
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and
François-Olivier Rousseau
François-Olivier Rousseau (born 20 September 1947, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French journalist and writer.
Biography
A young literary critic at ''Le Matin de Paris'' at the end of the 1970s, he became a novelist, met with success immediately ...
,
prix Femina
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for
Claude Faraggi
Claude Faraggi (28 May 1942 – 14 December 1991) was a French writer best known for his 1975 novel, ''Le Maître d'heure'', which won the Prix Femina.
Works
* 1965: ''Les Dieux du sable''
* 1967: ''Le Jour du fou''
* 1969: ''L'Effroi''
* 1971: ' ...
,
Jocelyne François
Jocelyne François (born 1933 in Nancy, France, Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a French writer. She is the author of five Lesbian fiction, lesbian novels, and winner of the Prix Femina.
Career
François was born in Nancy as the eldest of three ch ...
and Paula Jacques.
She was at the heart of the " Émile Ajar affair": Ajar was awarded the prix Goncourt, when he was in fact the pseudonym of Romain Gary, who still remains the only recipient of two Goncourt awards.
She dies on 23 October 1995 as a result of cancer. Her daughter, Isabelle, succeeded her as the head of the Mercury of France in 1995.
L'Humanité
''L'Humanité'' (; ), is a French daily newspaper. It was previously an organ of the French Communist Party, and maintains links to the party. Its slogan is "In an ideal world, ''L'Humanité'' would not exist."
History and profile
Pre-World Wa ...