Éditions L'Harmattan, usually known simply as L'Harmattan (), is one of the largest French book publishers. It specialises in
non-fiction books with a particular focus on
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara. These include Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, and West Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the list of sovereign states and ...
. It is named after the
Harmattan
The Harmattan is a season in West Africa that occurs between the end of November and the middle of March. It is characterized by the dry and dusty northeasterly trade wind, of the same name, which blows from the Sahara over West Africa into th ...
, 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)
* "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)
See also
* Éditions Karthala
*James Currey
James Currey is an academic publisher specialising in African Studies that 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—incl ...
- a defunct English publisher, specialising in sub-Saharan Africa
*Academic publishing
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*Electronic publishing
Electronic publishing (also referred to as e-publishing, digital publishing, or online publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books, digital magazines, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. It also includes the ed ...
*Language education
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* List of language self-study programs
* List of publishers of children's books
*Periodical literature
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*Publishing
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Academic publishing companies
Book publishing companies of France
Language education publishing companies
Magazine publishing companies of France
French companies established in 1975
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