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Éditions Gallimard

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Éditions Gallimard
Parent companyGroupe Madrigall
Founded31 May 1911;113 years ago(1911-05-31)
Founders
Country of originFrance
Headquarters locationParis
Key peopleAntoine Gallimard(CEO)
Publication typesBooks,Magazines
ImprintsBibliothèque de la Pléiade,Denoël,Flammarion,Gallimard Jeunesse,Mercure de France,Série noire
Official websitewww.gallimard.fr
Éditions Gallimard

Éditions Gallimard(French:[edisjɔ̃ɡalimaːʁ]), formerlyÉditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française(1911–1919) andLibrairie Gallimard(1919–1961), is one of the leading French bookpublishers.In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.[citation needed]

Founded byGaston Gallimardin 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandsonAntoine Gallimard.[1]

Éditions Gallimard is a subsidiary ofGroupe Madrigall,the third largest French publishing group.[2]

History

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The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris byGaston Gallimard,André Gide,andJean SchlumbergerasLes Éditions de laNouvelle Revue Française(NRF).

From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles includingLa Jeune ParquebyPaul Valéry.[3][4]NRF published the second volume ofIn Search of Lost Time,In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the firstPrix Goncourt-awarded book published by the company.[5]Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name "Librairie Gallimard" in 1919.

During theoccupation of France in World War II,Gaston Gallimard was hosted inCarcassonneby poetJoë Bousquet.He returned toParisin October 1940 to enter discussions with theThird Reichauthorities, 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.[6]

Catalogue

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Éditions Gallimard's best-selling authors includeAlbert Camus(29 million copies),Antoine de Saint-Exupéry(26.3 million copies) andJ. K. Rowling(whoseHarry Potterseries sold 26 million copies).[5][better source needed]Other important authors includeSalman Rushdie,Roald Dahl,Marcel Proust,Louis-Ferdinand Céline,Philip Roth,George Orwell,Jack Kerouac,Pablo NerudaandJohn Steinbeck.

As of 2011,its catalog consists of 36Prix Goncourtwinners, 38 writers who have received theNobel Prize in Literature,and ten writers who have been awarded thePulitzer Prize.[5]In 2010 the company had a turnover of€230million,[5]and over 1,000 employees.[7]

Gallimard acquiredGroupe FlammarionfromRCS MediaGroupin 2012.[8]

Subsidiaries

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Publishing houses

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Diffusion and distribution

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List of "collections"

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  • L'Arbalète/Gallimard
  • L'Arpenteur
  • L'Aube des peuples
  • La Bibliothèque de la Pléiade
  • Bibliothèque des histoires
  • La Bibliothèque Gallimard
  • Bibliothèque des idées
  • Bibliothèque des sciences humaines
  • La Blanche
  • Le Cabinet des Lettrés
  • Les Cahiers de la Nrf
  • Le Chemin
  • Connaissance de l'inconscient
  • Continents noirs
  • Le Débat
  • Découvertes Gallimard
  • Du Monde entier
  • Folio
  • Folio essais
  • Folio histoire
  • Folio actuel
  • Folio bilingue
  • Folio théâtre
  • Folio plus
  • Foliothèque
  • Folio classique
  • Folio policier
  • Folio SF
  • Folio documents
  • Folio 2 €
  • Folioplus classiques
  • Haute enfance
  • L'Imaginaire
  • L'Infini
  • Joëlle Losfeld
  • Livres d'art
  • NRF Biographies
  • NRF Essais (founded and directed byEric Vigne)
  • La Noire
  • Poésie/Gallimard
  • Le Promeneur
  • Quarto
  • Série noire
  • Le Temps des images
  • L'Univers des formes
  • L'Un et l'autre

See also

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References

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  1. ^Pascal Fouché (2005).Dictionnaire encyclopédique du Livre en deux volumes.Éditions du Cercle de la Libraire. p. 251.ISBN2-7654-0911-0.
  2. ^Beuve-Méry, Alain (26 June 2015)."Antoine Gallimard, seul maître à bord du troisième groupe d'édition français".Le Monde.Retrieved3 April2021.
  3. ^Henri Vignes; Pierre Boudrot (2011).Bibliographie des éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française: 26 mai 1911–15 juillet 1919.Paris: Libraire H. Vignes.ISBN9782867421822.
  4. ^Michel Jarrety (1992).Paul Valéry.Hachette supérieur.ISBN9782010178894.
  5. ^abcd"Gallimard, une histoire si française".Les Échos (newspaper).4 March 2011.
  6. ^Pascal Fouché[in French](1987).L'édition française sous l'Occupation: 1940–1944.Bibliothèque de littérature française contemporaine de l'Université Paris.OCLC17851738.
  7. ^Livres hebdo[fr],14 October 2011.
  8. ^Flammarion sold to Gallimard.The Book Seller. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
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