Fayard (complete name: ''Librairie Arthème Fayard'') is a French Paris-based
publishing house
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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
French historian Jean Favier
* ''Les Égarés'' by
French writer Frederick Tristan which was awarded the 1983
Prix Goncourt
The 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 of only 10 euros, but resul ...
*''Sorbonne Confidential'' by
American author
Laurel Zuckerman
*''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) (2009)
References
External links
Official website
Book publishing companies of France
Publishing companies established in 1857
Mass media in Paris
French companies established in 1857
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