Éditions Gallimard (; formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961) is one of the leading French book

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s. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandson

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Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group.

History

The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and

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as ''Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française'' (NRF). From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles including ''La Jeune Parque'' by Paul Valéry. NRF published the second volume of '' In Search of Lost Time'', In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the first

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-awarded book published by the company. Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name "Librairie Gallimard" in 1919. During the

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, Gaston Gallimard was hosted in Carcassonne by poet Joë Bousquet. He returned to

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in October 1940 to enter discussions with the Third Reich authorities, who wished to control his publishing company. It was agreed that Gaston Gallimard would still control his company if he collaborated with the authorities and published pro-Hitler writings.

Catalogue

Éditions Gallimard's best-selling authors include

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(29 million copies), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (26.3 million copies), and J.K. Rowling (whose ''

Harry Potter ''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students a ...

'' series sold 26 million copies). Other important authors include Salman Rushdie, Roald Dahl, Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Philip Roth,

George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalita ...

, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Neruda, and John Steinbeck. As of 2011, its catalog consists of 36

winners, 38 writers who have received the

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, and ten writers who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 2010 the company had a turnover of million, and over 1,000 employees. Gallimard acquired Groupe Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012.Flammarion sold to Gallimard
The Book Seller. Retrieved 1 August 2015.

Subsidiaries

Publishing houses

* Éditions Denoël * Les Éditions du Mercure de France * Nouveaux Loisirs ( tourist guides) * Groupe Flammarion * Futuropolis * Gallimard Jeunesse * (88%) * Éditions de La Table Ronde * Bibliothèque de la Pléiade

Diffusion and distribution

* SODIS * SOCADIS (joint venture with Flammarion) *

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* France Export Diffusion

List of " collections"

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Editions Gallimard Gallimard French brands French business families French speculative fiction publishers