Editions Grasset & Fasquelle
The Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle (formerly Éditions Bernard Grasset) is a French publisher founded in 1907 by Bernard Grasset (1881–1955) in Paris (Rue des Saints Pères). He is one of the most important literary publishers in France.
Because of its importance within French-language literature (especially as a publisher of many authors who have received the Prix Goncourt ), it has been compared several times with the Éditions Gallimard and the Éditions du Seuil and caricatured as Galligrasseuill .
history
The publishing house was founded as Les Editions Nouvelles and published books by Prix Goncourt winners as early as 1911 and 1912 . In 1913 they published Du côté de chez Swan by the then still unknown Marcel Proust , whose manuscript had previously been rejected by several publishers. From the 1920s onwards, authors such as André Maurois , François Mauriac , Henry de Montherlant and Paul Morand joined them and in 1921 the series Les Cahiers verts was founded. Other authors were Jean Cocteau , Raymond Radiguet , Blaise Cendrars , Drieu la Rochelle , Jean Guéhenno , Jean Giono , Philippe Soupault , Joseph Delteil , Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz , André Malraux .
In 1944 Bernard Grasset had to give up the management of the publishing house temporarily because he was accused of collaboration; he took it over again in 1950. He discovered Hervé Bazin and Jacques Laurent in the early 1950s . In 1954 he sold to Hachette Livre . Under Grasset's nephew, the writer Bernard Privat (1914–1985), the publishing house was reorganized and in 1967 merged with the Fasquelle publishing house.
Authors such as Jean-Claude Fasquelle (* 1930), Yves Berger , François Nourissier , Françoise Mallet-Joris , Matthieu Galey , Françoise Verny , Edmonde Charles-Roux (Prix Goncourt), Michel Butor , André Pieyre de Mandiargues , Teilhard de came under private Chardin , René de Obaldia , Jacques Laurent , Dominique Fernandez , Kléber Haedens , Christine de Rivoyre , Christiane Rochefort as well as Bernard-Henri Lévy and other representatives of the Nouvelle philosophy .
Private retired in 1981 and Jean-Claude Fasquelle (who was also the grandson of Émile Zola's publisher) took over the management of the publishing house. The authors under his aegis included Gabriel García Marquez , Umberto Eco , TC Boyle , Héctor Bianciotti , Lucien Bodard , Marc Lambron , Daniel Boulanger , Patrick Rambaud , Benoite Groult , François Weyergans , Jean Vautrin , Amin Maalouf , Pascal Bruckner , Daniel Rondeau , Jacques Chessex , Jean-Pierre Milovanoff , Frédéric Beigbeder , Yann Moix , Christophe Donner , Christophe Bataille , Lorette Nobécourt , Virginie Despentes . In 1983 Fasquelle founded the Les Cahiers Rouge series .
In 2000 Olivier Nora took over the management of the publishing house.
From the 2000s onwards, the authors include Anne Berest , Delphine Coulin , Charles Dantzig , Alexandre Jardin , Dany Laferrière , Andreï Makine , Léonora Miano , Pascal Quignard , Jean Rouaud , Karine Tuil , Edwidge Danticat , Joan Didion , Charles Frazier , Robert Galbraith , Nadine Gordimer , Mohsin Hamid , Charles Lewinsky , Patrick McGuinness , VS Naipaul , Lawrence Norfolk , José Luís Peixoto , Annie Proulx , Joanne K. Rowling , Sandro Veronesi . There are also classic authors (including Hermann Hesse ) and, for example, letters by famous painters.
In 2016 they had around 5000 titles in their catalog; they publish around 170 new titles per year (as of 2017).