Actes Sud

Actes Sud
Founded	1978; 46 years ago
Founder	Hubert Nyssen
Country of origin	France
Headquarters location	Arles
Key people	Françoise Nyssen
Publication types	Books
Official website	www.actes-sud.fr

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]

History

ACTeS was situated in

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
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

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

References

^ ^a ^b Leménager, Grégoire (November 15, 2011). "La mort d'Hubert Nyssen, fondateur d'Actes Sud". Le Nouvel Observateur. Archived from the original on October 10, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ ^a ^b Beuve-Méry, Alain (January 3, 2013). "Actes Sud rachète Payot & Rivages". Le Monde. Archived from the original on November 19, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ Molga, Paul (November 11, 2012). "Le Goncourt force la croissance d'Actes Sud". Les Echos. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ "Décès de Christine Le Bœuf, cofondatrice d'Actes Sud, illustratrice et traductrice". Livres Hebdo (in French). Retrieved 2022-08-10.
^ "Hubert Nyssen, Actes Sud: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
^ "Hubert NYSSEN - Les Moments Littéraires". lesmomentslitteraires.fr. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
^ "Le Goncourt garantit-il un succès en librairie ?" (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-08-18. Retrieved 2018-08-17.
^ "Le Goncourt pour Jérôme Ferrari". Livres hebdo (in French). November 7, 2012. Archived from the original on September 10, 2018. Retrieved June 23, 2022.
^ Ken Willsher (November 3, 2015). "France's top literary prize awarded to Mathias Énard". The Guardian. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2015.
^ "Le prix Goncourt récompense Eric Vuillard pour " L'Ordre du jour "". Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 2019-06-16. Retrieved 2018-09-09.
^ Van Renterghem, Marion (November 4, 2015). "Françoise Nyssen, l'éditrice à qui tout réussit". Le Monde. Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
^ Marshall, Alex (8 November 2018). "Nicolas Mathieu Wins Goncourt Prize for Work on France's Forgotten". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2019.