Au Diable Vauvert

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Au Diable Vauvert is an economically independent French publisher . It was founded in 2000 by Marion Mazauric, Philippe Mandilas and Anne Guérand.

Company name

The publisher's name is a play on words. On the one hand, he refers to the company's headquarters in the municipality of Vauvert near Nîmes . On the other hand, au diable vauvert literally means where the fox and the rabbit say goodnight or even in the ass of the world .

legal form

The company is a société à responsabilité limitée with equity of 214,100 euros. Marion Reynaud is registered as managing director, the person with this name is identical to Marion Mazauric.

history

Marion Mazauric was the publishing director at J'ai lu before she founded her own publishing house together with Anne Guérand and Philippe Mandilas. The company is based in an old village school in the village of La Laune, a sub-municipality of Vauvert. This includes 20 writer-in-residence grants per year , supported by grants from the Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles . In 2006 the publisher employed six people; In that year sales exceeded one million euros for the first time. 300,000 copies of the book have been sold in six years.

In 2010 the catalog included 200 publications. The publisher published around 20 titles per year and had a turnover of 1.5 million euros. The publisher published the novel Un léger passage à vide by Nicolas Rey ; In the course of time, the sales of this title totaled 80,000 copies.

In 2011, Au Diable Vauvert published Le Bal des hypocrites by Tristane Banon with a print run of 40,000 copies - the highest in publishing history to date. At this point the publisher had sold 700,000 copies of the book.

In 2014 sales amounted to EUR 1.052 million.

Publishing program

The publishing program covers a number of literary genres. On the one hand, Au Diable Vauvert publishes literary novels. In addition to French, Anglo-Saxon authors mainly shape the program. On the other hand, the publisher also publishes pamphlets, science fiction, crime novels and comics.

Well-known authors of the publishing house are or were among others Neil Gaiman , Tao Lin , Pierre Bordage , Douglas Coupland , Régis de Sá Moreira and Ayerdhal . His thriller Transparences , published in 2004, received the Prix ​​polar Michel Lebrun and the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire .

Young authors are also published and funded to the same extent:

  • Nicolas Rey received the Prix ​​de Flore in November 2000 for the novel Mémoire courte .
  • The publishing house helped Belgian Thomas Gunzig to achieve a breakthrough, whose first novel Mort d'un parfait bilingue was awarded the Belgian literary prize Prix ​​Victor-Rossel in 2001.
  • In 2010 Nicolas Rey was again awarded the Prix ​​Ciné Roman Carte Noire for Un léger passage à vide .

References and comments

  1. ↑ Éditeurs adhérents. Au Diable Vauvert. Bureau international d'édition française, accessed on November 1, 2015 (French).
  2. ^ Valentine Ducrot: Marion Mazauric et le livre magique . In: Objectif Languedoc-Roussillon . No. January 11 , 2001, p. 66 (French).
  3. ↑ a b c Au Diable Vauvert. Fiche entreprise: chiffres d'affaires, bilan et résultat. societe.com, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  4. ^ Marion Mazauric, Maison d'édition Au diable Vauvert. Talent d'entrepreneur. Union pour les entreprises du Gard, accessed on November 1, 2015 (French).
  5. ↑ Catherine Bernard: Au vert. In: Liberation . March 8, 2008, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  6. ^ Mylène Sultan: Les personnalités qui font le… Languedoc-Roussillon. In: L'Express . July 16, 2007, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  7. ↑ Luc Le Vaillant: Editorera. Marion Mazauric. En semaine, elle dirige les éditions Au diable vauvert. Le dimanche, elle chevauche dans l'arène. In: Liberation . September 15, 2010, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  8. ^ Anthony Rey: Au Diable Vauvert publie Tristane Banon. In: Objectif Languedoc-Roussillon. October 17, 2011, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  9. ↑ Frederic Brillet: A Nimes, les 5 figures de l'offre culturelle. In: L'Express. November 8, 2011, archived from the original on July 22, 2014 ; accessed on November 1, 2015 (French).
  10. ^ Marion Mazauric. Editrice, créatrice de la maison d'édition Au Diable Vauvert. In: France Inter . Retrieved November 1, 2015 (French).
  11. ↑ Vie des prix. In: Liberation. September 30, 2004, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  12. ^ Pierre Vavasseur: Deux prix pour la jeune garde. In: Le Parisien . November 10, 2000, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  13. ^ German edition: Death of a bilingual
  14. ↑ Thomas Gunzig, prix Rossel. In: La Libre Belgique . December 5, 2001, accessed November 1, 2015 (French).
  15. ↑ Christophe Onot-Dit-Biot: Cinéma, veux-tu des héros? (No longer available online.) In: Le Point . May 13, 2010, archived from the original on July 1, 2015 ; accessed on November 1, 2015 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lepoint.fr

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