Английская Википедия:Actes Sud
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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
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[4]), his sister Françoise Nyssen, Bertrand Py and Jean-Paul Capitani met and founded Actes Sud. In 1983 Actes Sud moved to Arles. The publishing house was incorporated on 2 May 1987.[5]
The Actes Sud was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS).[6]
Authors
A selection of authors Actes Sud published:
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.[7]
- 2012: Sermon sur la chute de Rome by Jérôme Ferrari was the second book published by Actes Sud honoured by the Prix Goncourt.[8]
- 2015: Compass (Bussole) by Mathias Énard, also published by Actes Sud, received the Prix Goncourt.[9]
- 2017: The order of the day (L'Ordre du jour) by Éric Vuillard, published by Actes Sud, got the Prix Goncourt.[10]
- 2015: Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature.[11]
- 2018: Nicolas Mathieu wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel Leurs enfants après eux.[12]
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
Book series
- 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
External links
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