Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen.[1][2][3] By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen,[1] had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members.[2]
Prizes
- 2004: the book The Scortas' Sun (Le Soleil des Scorta) by Laurent Gaudé, was the first book published by Actes Sud, receiving a Prix Goncourt (Prix Goncourt/Roman). The book sold 400,000 copies.[4]
- 2012: Sermon sur la chute de Rome by Jérôme Ferrari was the second book published by Actes Sud honoured by the Prix Goncourt.[citation needed]
- 2015: Compass (Bussole) by Mathias Énard, also published by Actes Sud, received the Prix Goncourt.[citation needed]
- 2017: The order of the day (L’Ordre du jour) by Éric Vuillard, published by Actes Sud, got the Prix Goncourt.[citation needed]
- 2015: Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature.[5]
Programme
Actes Süd provides a catalogue naming 11,500 titles. It has more than two hundred employees, mostly at the sites in Arles and Paris, about twenty external advisors and a plethora of translators work in France and elsewhere.
References
- ^ a b Leménager, Grégoire (November 15, 2011). "La mort d'Hubert Nyssen, fondateur d'Actes Sud". Le Nouvel Observateur. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- ^ a b Beuve-Méry, Alain (January 3, 2013). "Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages". Le Monde. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- ^ Molga, Paul (November 11, 2012). "Le Goncourt force la croissance d'Actes Sud". Les Echos. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
- ^ "Le Goncourt garantit-il un succès en librairie ?" (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-17.
- ^ Van Renterghem, Marion (November 4, 2015). "Françoise Nyssen, l'éditrice à qui tout réussit". Le Monde. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
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