Éditions Gallimard

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Éditions Gallimard (Template:IPA), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003, it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.Template:Citation needed

Founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911, the publisher is now majority-owned by his grandson Antoine Gallimard.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Éditions Gallimard is a subsidiary of Groupe Madrigall, the third largest French publishing group.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

History

The publisher was founded on 31 May 1911 in Paris by Gaston Gallimard, André Gide, and Jean Schlumberger as Les Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF).

From its 31 May 1911 founding until June 1919, Nouvelle Revue Française published one hundred titles including La Jeune Parque by Paul Valéry.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> NRF published the second volume of In Search of Lost Time, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, which became the first Prix Goncourt-awarded book published by the company.<ref name="gallimardhist">Template:Cite news</ref> Nouvelle Revue Française adopted the name "Librairie Gallimard" in 1919.

During the occupation of France in World War II, Gaston Gallimard was hosted in Carcassonne by poet Joë Bousquet. He returned to Paris in October 1940 to enter discussions with the Third Reich authorities, who wished to control his publishing company. It was agreed that Gaston Gallimard would still control his company if he collaborated with the authorities and published pro-Hitler writings.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Catalogue

Éditions Gallimard's best-selling authors include Albert Camus (29 million copies), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (26.3 million copies) and J. K. Rowling (whose Harry Potter series sold 26 million copies).<ref name="gallimardhist"/>Template:Failed verification Other important authors include Salman Rushdie, Roald Dahl, Marcel Proust, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Philip Roth, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Neruda and John Steinbeck.

Template:As of its catalog consists of 36 Prix Goncourt winners, 38 writers who have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and ten writers who have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize.<ref name="gallimardhist"/> In 2010 the company had a turnover of Template:€ million,<ref name="gallimardhist"/> and over 1,000 employees.<ref>Template:Ill, 14 October 2011.</ref>

Gallimard acquired Groupe Flammarion from RCS MediaGroup in 2012.<ref>Flammarion sold to Gallimard. The Book Seller. Retrieved 1 August 2015.</ref>

Subsidiaries

Publishing houses

Diffusion and distribution

List of collections

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