Fayard Explained

Fayard (complete name: Librairie Arthème Fayard) is a French Paris-based publishing house 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.^[1] He was replaced by Olivier Nora, previously head of Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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
• 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)

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. News: Claude Durand quitte la présidence des éditions Fayard au profit d'Olivier Nora. Le Monde. Le Monde.fr . Le Monde. 23 March 2009.
2. Web site: Olivier Nora, nouveau PDG de Fayard : la vengeance de Grasset ?. Hubert Artus. rue89.com. 23 March 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130314155101/http://blogs.rue89.com/cabinet-de-lecture/2009/03/23/olivier-nora-nouveau-pdg-de-fayard-la-vengeance-de-grasset-0. 14 March 2013.
3. News: Sophie de Closets devient PDG de Fayard. Le Monde. Le Monde.fr . Le Monde. 6 November 2013.
4. Web site: Fayard absorbe Hachette Littératures. Le Magazine Littéraire. Le Magazine Littéraire. 3 December 2009. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160122044635/http://www.magazine-litteraire.com/actualite/breve/fayard-absorbe-hachette-litteratures-03-12-2009-32689. 22 January 2016.