Fayard
 | You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (November 2015) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
 |
Fayard (French: [fajaʁ]; complete name: Librairie Arthème Fayard) is a French Paris-based publishing house established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre.
History
[edit]In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand was director of Fayard from 1980 until his retirement in 2009.[1] He was replaced by Olivier Nora, previously head of Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle[2] 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.[3]
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.[4]
Imprints
[edit]Fayard has three imprints:
- Editions Mille et Une Nuits
- Editions Mazarine
- Pauvert
Works published
[edit]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
- Sorbonne Confidential by American author Laurel Zuckerman
- Tropic Moon by Belgian writer Georges Simenon
Collections
[edit]- 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 (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) (2009)
References
[edit]- ^ Le Monde (23 March 2009). "Claude Durand quitte la présidence des éditions Fayard au profit d'Olivier Nora". Le Monde.fr.
- ^ Hubert Artus (23 March 2009). "Olivier Nora, nouveau PDG de Fayard : la vengeance de Grasset ?". rue89.com. Archived from the original on 14 March 2013.
- ^ Le Monde (6 November 2013). "Sophie de Closets devient PDG de Fayard". Le Monde.fr.
- ^ Le Magazine Littéraire (3 December 2009). "Fayard absorbe Hachette Littératures". Archived from the original on 22 January 2016.
External links
[edit]| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
 | This publishing-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |