Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based

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established in 1857. Fayard is controlled by Hachette Livre. In 1999, Éditions Pauvert became part of Fayard. Claude Durand 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

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historian Jean Favier * ''Les Égarés'' by

writer Frederick Tristan which was awarded the 1983

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt (french: Le 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 o ...

*''Sorbonne Confidential'' by American author

Laurel Zuckerman Laurel Zuckerman (born 1960) is an American author based near Paris, France. Biography Zuckerman is originally from Scottsdale, Arizona, but now lives in France. She graduated from the HEC School of Management, a French business school. Un ...

*''Tropic Moon'' by Belgian writer Georges Simenon

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 (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 far-left 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 ...

) (2009)

References

External links

Official website
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