Actes Sud
Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. Sud acquired Payot & Rivages in 2013.
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Actes Sud
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- Founded
- 1978.
- Founder
- Hubert Nyssen.
- Headquarters
- Arles.
- Activity
- book publishing.
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Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. Sud acquired Payot & Rivages in 2013.
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Actes Sud was founded in 1978, with headquarters in Arles. Its country is France. It is a member of The French Publishers Association.
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History
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), 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. The Actes Sud was a publication of the "Atelier de cartographie thématique et statistique" (ACTeS).
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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
Book series
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2015 Paris Book Fair, from 20 to 23 March 2015, Paris expo Porte de Versailles.
ActuaLitté · Actes Sud - Salon du Livre de Paris 2015
Interview avec Hugh Howey, pour la parution de Silo, premier roman de science fiction chez Actes Sud, dans la collection Exofiction
ActuaLitté · Hugh Howey - Silo
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
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1978
Actes Sud established.
1978
Actes Sud is recorded from 1978.
Primary material
Documents and archives
scholarly publication
- Abeille, Anne et Godard, Danièle (dir.) (2021). La Grande Grammaire du Français. Arles: Actes Sud, Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 2022
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2022
- Ahmad Alaidy, Dans la peau de 'Abbas el-'Abd, Arles, Actes Sud, 2010, 176 pages. Khaled Al Khamissy, Taxi, Arles, Actes Sud, 2009, 192 pages. Mahmoud Wardany, La prairie parfumée, Arles, Actes Sud, 2007, 192 pages, L'Homme & la Société, 2016
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2016
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1219360-4, Actes Sud.
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
reference work
- “Actes Sud”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
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. 2012: Sermon sur la chute de Rome by Jérôme Ferrari was the second book published by Actes Sud honoured by the Prix Goncourt. 2015: Compass (Bussole) by Mathias Énard, also published by Actes Sud, received the Prix Goncourt. 2017: The order of the day (L'Ordre du jour) by Éric Vuillard, published by Actes Sud, got the Prix Goncourt. 2015: Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature. 2018: Nicolas Mathieu wins the Prix Goncourt for his novel Leurs enfants après eux.
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- 1.Leménager, Grégoire. La mort d'Hubert Nyssen, fondateur d'Actes Sud. Le Nouvel Observateur. November 15, 2011.
- 2.Beuve-Méry, Alain. Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages. Le Monde. January 3, 2013.
- 3.Molga, Paul. Le Goncourt force la croissance d'Actes Sud. Les Echos. November 11, 2012.
- 4.Beuve-Méry, Alain. Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages. Le Monde. 3 January 2013.
- 5.Décès de Christine Le Bœuf, cofondatrice d'Actes Sud, illustratrice et traductrice. Livres Hebdo.
- 6.Hubert Nyssen, Actes Sud: Profile and Biography. Bloomberg.com.
- 7.Hubert NYSSEN - Les Moments Littéraires. lesmomentslitteraires.fr.
- 8.Le Goncourt garantit-il un succès en librairie ?.
- 9.Le Goncourt pour Jérôme Ferrari. Livres hebdo. November 7, 2012.
- 10.Ken Willsher. France's top literary prize awarded to Mathias Énard. The Guardian. November 3, 2015.
- 11.Le prix Goncourt récompense Eric Vuillard pour " L'Ordre du jour ". Le Monde.
- 12.Van Renterghem, Marion. Françoise Nyssen, l'éditrice à qui tout réussit. Le Monde. November 4, 2015.
- 13.Marshall, Alex. Nicolas Mathieu Wins Goncourt Prize for Work on France's Forgotten. The New York Times. 8 November 2018.
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scholarly publication
Abeille, Anne et Godard, Danièle (dir.) (2021). La Grande Grammaire du Français. Arles: Actes Sud, Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée, 2022Crossref registry
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1219360-4, Actes Sud.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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