Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in

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. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.

History

ACTeS was situated in Paradou, a village in the Vallée des Baux. Here, founder Hubert Nyssen, his wife Christine Le Bœuf, (which was the granddaughter of Belgian banker and patron Henry Le Bœuf), his sister Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved to

. The publishing house was incorporated on 2 May 1987. The ''Actes Sud'' was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS).

Authors

A selection of authors Actes Sud published:

Prizes

* 2004: the book '' The Scortas' Sun'' (''Le Soleil des Scorta'') by Laurent Gaudé, was the first book published by Actes Sud, receiving a

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(Prix Goncourt/Roman). The book sold 400,000 copies. * 2012: ''Sermon sur la chute de Rome'' by Jérôme Ferrari was the second book published by Actes Sud honoured by the Prix Goncourt. * 2015: ''

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'' (''Bussole'') by Mathias Énard, also published by Actes Sud, received the Prix Goncourt. * 2017: '' The order of the day'' (''L'Ordre du jour'') by Éric Vuillard, published by Actes Sud, got the Prix Goncourt. * 2015: Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature. * 2018: Nicolas Mathieu wins the

for his novel '' Leurs enfants après eux''.

Programme

Actes Süd provides a catalogue naming 11,500 titles. It has more than two hundred employees, mostly at the sites in

and

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, about twenty external advisors and a plethora of translators work in

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and elsewhere.

Book series

* Actes Sud BD * Actes Sud - Classica * Actes Sud Junior * Actes Sud - L’An 2 * Actes noirs * Actes Sud - Papiers * Actes Sud / Solin * Actes Sud / Sindbad * Babel * Babel noir * Domaine du possible * Un endroit où aller * Exofictions * Photo Poche

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Actes Sud Book publishing companies of France French companies established in 1978 Publishing companies established in 1978 Arles French brands