Claude Durand
Claude Durand (born November 9, 1938 in Livry-Gargan ; died May 7, 2015 in Paris ) was a French publisher, translator from English and Spanish, and author .
Life
From 1958 Durand was an editor at Verlag du Seuil for twenty years ; In 1978 he moved to Éditions Grasset and from 1980 to 2009 managed the Fayard publishing house . Together with his wife Carmen Durand he discovered and translated in 1968 at Le Seul Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez . With her he also translated other Latin American, Spanish-speaking authors such as Isabel Allende , Jorge Semprún and from English Alan Sillitoe . In 1973 he became Alexander Solzhenitsyn's literary agent and was his publisher in France.
Durand began his own literary career with the novel L'Autre Vie ; for La Nuit zoologique he received the Prix Médicis in 1979 . However, he gave up writing in favor of publishing.
Durand fought against the political left in France and published Pierre Péan's revelations on François Mitterrand and Péan's pamphlet against the newspaper Le Monde . At Fayard he supervised authors such as Jacques Attali and Jean Ziegler ; that he also moved the right-wing extremist Renaud Camus , brought him the accusation of anti-Semitism .
In 2010 he published the book J'aurais voulu être éditeur under the pseudonym François Thuret .
In 2013 he was a candidate for the Académie française , but was not accepted; In 2014 he was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor .
Works (selection)
- L'Autre Vie . Editions du Seuil, 1963
- La Nuit zoologique . Grasset, 1979
- François Thuret (pseudonym): J'aurais voulu être éditeur. Afterword by Claude Durand. Albin Michel, 2010
- Agent de Soljenitsyne . Fayard, 2011
- J'étais un numéro un . Albin Michel, 2011
- Le Pavillon des écrivains . Fallois, 2011
Web links
- Literature by and about Claude Durand in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e J.A. ( Jürg Altwegg ): Legend of publishers , in FAZ , May 9, 2015, p. 14
- ↑ Claude Durand, figure de l'édition française , in: Le Monde, May 7, 2015
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Durand, Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French publisher, translator and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Livry-Gargan |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 2015 |
| Place of death | Paris |