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]
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| Founded | 1978 |
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| Founder | Hubert Nyssen |
| Country of origin | France |
| Headquarters location | Arles |
| Key people | Françoise Nyssen |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www |
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:
- Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Prize in Literature
- Paul Auster, Prix Médicis étranger for Léviathan
- Henry Bauchau, Prix du Livre Inter, 2008 for Le Boulevard périphérique
- Jeanne Benameur, Grand prix RTL-Lire, 2013 for Profanes
- Nina Berberova
- Sophie Calle
- Magyd Cherfi, Price of Parisien Magazine, 2016 for Ma part de Gaulois
- Kamel Daoud, Prix Goncourt for Debut novel, 2015 for Meursault, contre-enquête
- Mathias Énard, Prix du Livre Inter, 2009 for Zone (Roman) and third Prix Goncourt at Actes Sud 2015 for Boussole
- Jérôme Ferrari, second Prix Goncourt at Actes Sud, 2012 for The Sermon on the Fall of Rome
- Laurent Gaudé, first Prix Goncourt for a book Actes Sud published, 2004 for Le Soleil des Scorta
- Günter Grass, Nobel Prize in Literature
- Nancy Huston, prix du Livre Inter, 1997 for Instruments des ténèbres, prix Femina, 2006 for Lignes de faille
- Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize in Literature
- Camilla Läckberg
- Stieg Larsson
- Alberto Manguel
- Cormac McCarthy
- Wajdi Mouawad
- Olivier Py
- Pierre Rabhi
- Jean-Michel Ribes
- Siri Hustvedt
- Kathryn Stockett
- Yasmine Chami
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
