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Actes Sud

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Actes Sud
Founded1978;46 years ago(1978)
FounderHubert Nyssen
Country of originFrance
Headquarters locationArles
Key peopleFrançoise Nyssen
Publication typesBooks
Official websitewww.actes-sud.fr

Actes Sudis a French publishing house based inArles.It was founded in 1978 by authorHubert 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]

History

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ACTeS was situated inParadou,a village in theVallée des Baux.Here, founderHubert Nyssen,his wife Christine Le Bœuf, (which was the granddaughter ofBelgianbankerandpatronHenry Le Bœuf[4]), his sisterFrançoise Nyssen,Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved toArles.The publishing house was incorporated on 2 May 1987.[5]

TheActes Sudwas a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS).[6]

Authors

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A selection of authors Actes Sud published:

Prizes

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Programme

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Actes Süd provides a catalogue naming 11,500 titles. It has more than two hundred employees, mostly at the sites inArlesandParis,about twenty external advisors and a plethora of translators work inFranceand elsewhere.

Book series

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  • 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

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  1. ^abLeménager, Grégoire (November 15, 2011)."La mort d'Hubert Nyssen, fondateur d'Actes Sud".Le Nouvel Observateur.Archivedfrom the original on October 10, 2016.RetrievedOctober 7,2016.
  2. ^abBeuve-Méry, Alain (January 3, 2013)."Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages".Le Monde.Archivedfrom the original on November 19, 2015.RetrievedOctober 7,2016.
  3. ^Molga, Paul (November 11, 2012)."Le Goncourt force la croissance d'Actes Sud".Les Echos.Archivedfrom the original on October 9, 2016.RetrievedOctober 7,2016.
  4. ^"Décès de Christine Le Bœuf, cofondatrice d'Actes Sud, illustratrice et traductrice".Livres Hebdo(in French).Retrieved2022-08-10.
  5. ^"Hubert Nyssen, Actes Sud: Profile and Biography".Bloomberg.com.Retrieved2022-08-10.
  6. ^"Hubert NYSSEN - Les Moments Littéraires".lesmomentslitteraires.fr.Retrieved2022-08-10.
  7. ^"Le Goncourt garantit-il un succès en librairie?"(in French).Archivedfrom the original on 2018-08-18.Retrieved2018-08-17.
  8. ^"Le Goncourt pour Jérôme Ferrari".Livres hebdo(in French). November 7, 2012.Archivedfrom the original on September 10, 2018.RetrievedJune 23,2022.
  9. ^Ken Willsher (November 3, 2015)."France's top literary prize awarded to Mathias Énard".The Guardian.Archivedfrom the original on August 26, 2016.RetrievedNovember 3,2015.
  10. ^"Le prix Goncourt récompense Eric Vuillard pour" L'Ordre du jour "".Le Monde(in French).Archivedfrom the original on 2019-06-16.Retrieved2018-09-09.
  11. ^Van Renterghem, Marion (November 4, 2015)."Françoise Nyssen, l'éditrice à qui tout réussit".Le Monde.Archivedfrom the original on October 9, 2016.RetrievedOctober 7,2016.
  12. ^Marshall, Alex (8 November 2018)."Nicolas Mathieu Wins Goncourt Prize for Work on France's Forgotten".The New York Times.Archivedfrom the original on 13 May 2019.Retrieved13 June2019.
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