Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based
publishing house
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established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by
Hachette Livre
Hachette Livre S.A. (; simply known as Hachette) is a French publishing, publishing group that was based in Paris. It was founded in 1826 by Louis Hachette as Brédif which later became successively L. Hachette et Compagnie, Librairie 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 togeth ...
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 ( , "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 of only 10 euros, but resul ...
*''Sorbonne Confidential'' by
American author
Laurel Zuckerman
*''Tropic Moon'' by
Belgian writer
Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 ...
Collections
* 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 (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...
(1950)
* Voici la France (1958)
* Recherches avancées (series editor:
Raymond Abellio) (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 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 of culture ...
) (2009)
References
External links
Official website
Book publishing companies of France
Publishing companies established in 1857
Mass media in Paris
French companies established in 1857
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