Éditions du Seuil

Éditions du Seuil [ edisjɔ dy sœj ] is a major French publisher based in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge.

History

The publishing house was founded in 1935 by Henri Sjöberg and led since 1937 by Paul Flament ( 1909-1998 ) and Jean Bardet. Traditional Publishing seat was 27, rue Jacob in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. The outline of this house became a trademark. The rise of the publisher began after the Second World War. Due to the commercial success of the series Don Camillo, the publisher could afford to buy the French rights to Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Italo Calvino; the German Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass were published by du Seuil. The publisher brought out authors of social science such as Roland Barthes and published authors such as Leopold Sedar Senghor of La Francophonie.

Literally was coined by the weekly Le canard enchaîné term Galligrasseuil, the literary importance of three publishers caricatured in this portmanteau word, namely the Éditions Gallimard, the Éditions Grasset and the Éditions du Seuil, particularly in terms of their success in literary prizes such as the Prix Goncourt.

Since 2004 he is part of one of the 20 largest publishers, the group La Martinière.