Actes Sud

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]

Actes Sud

Founded	1978; 47 years ago (1978)
Founder	Hubert Nyssen
Country of origin	France
Headquarters location	Arles
Key people	Françoise Nyssen
Publication types	Books
Official website	www.actes-sud.fr

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 Le 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
• Thuận
• 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