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]

History

The Actes Sud was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS). ACTeS was situated in Paradou, a village in the Vallée des Baux. Here, founder Hubert Nyssen, his wife Christine Le Bœuf, (which was the granddaughter of Belgian banker and patron Henry Le Bœuf), his sister Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved to Arles.

Authors

A selection of authors Actes Sud published:

• Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Prize in Literature
• Paul Auster, Prix Médicis étranger for Léviathan
• Henry Bauchau, Prix du Livre Inter, 2008 for Le Boulevard périphérique
• Jeanne Benameur, Grand prix RTL-Lire, 2013 for Profanes
• Nina Berberova
• Sophie Calle
• Magyd Cherfi, Price of Parisien Magazine, 2016 for Ma part de Gaulois
• Kamel Daoud, Prix Goncourt for Debut novel, 2015 for Meursault, contre-enquête
• Mathias Énard, Prix du Livre Inter, 2009 for Zone (Roman) and third Prix Goncourt at Actes Sud 2015 for Boussole
• Alice Ferney
• Jérôme Ferrari, second Prix Goncourt at Actes Sud, 2012 for The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
• Laurent Gaudé, first Prix Goncourt for a book Actes Sud published, 2004 for Le Soleil des Scorta
• Günter Grass, Nobel Prize in Literature
• Nancy Huston, prix du Livre Inter, 1997 for Instruments des ténèbres, prix Femina, 2006 for Lignes de faille
• Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize in Literature
• Camilla Läckberg
• Stieg Larsson
• Alberto Manguel
• Cormac McCarthy
• Wajdi Mouawad
• Olivier Py
• Pierre Rabhi
• Jean-Michel Ribes
• Jacky Siméon
• Siri Hustvedt
• Kathryn Stockett

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.[5]
• 2015: Compass (Bussole) by Mathias Énard, also published by Actes Sud, received the Prix Goncourt.[6]
• 2017: The order of the day (L'Ordre du jour) by Éric Vuillard, published by Actes Sud, got the Prix Goncourt.[7]
• 2015: Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature.[8]
• 2018: Nicolas Mathieu wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel Leurs enfants après eux.[9]

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

1. Leménager, Grégoire (November 15, 2011). "La mort d'Hubert Nyssen, fondateur d'Actes Sud". Le Nouvel Observateur. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
2. Beuve-Méry, Alain (January 3, 2013). "Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages". Le Monde. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
3. Molga, Paul (November 11, 2012). "Le Goncourt force la croissance d'Actes Sud". Les Echos. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
4. "Le Goncourt garantit-il un succès en librairie ?" (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-17.
5. "Le Goncourt pour Jérôme Ferrari". Livres hebdo (in French). November 7, 2012. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
6. Ken Willsher (November 3, 2015). "France's top literary prize awarded to Mathias Énard". The Guardian. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
7. "Le prix Goncourt récompense Eric Vuillard pour " L'Ordre du jour "". Le Monde (in French).
8. Van Renterghem, Marion (November 4, 2015). "Françoise Nyssen, l'éditrice à qui tout réussit". Le Monde. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
9. Marshall, Alex (8 November 2018). "Nicolas Mathieu Wins Goncourt Prize for Work on France's Forgotten". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2019.

External links

• Official website