The presidency of the famous publishing house returns to Anne-Sylvie Bameule, 48, daughter of Jean-Paul Capitani, the husband of the former Minister of Culture.
Le Monde with AFP
The former Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen, daughter of the founder of Actes Sud editions, Hubert Nyssen, will cede her post as president of the publishing house at the end of the year, assured the company on Tuesday September 27. M Me Nyssen, 71, will remain a member of the Management Board, chaired from 1 er by Anne-Sylvie Bameule, 48 years old. She is the daughter of Jean-Paul Capitani, the husband of the ex-minister. Pauline Capitani, daughter of M me nyssen and Mr. Capitani, will become the director of South Acts operations on the same date. Finally, the post of director general will return to Julie Gautier, who will succeed Olivier Randon.
“This family transmission represents a chance for the house because it guarantees its independence for the coming years. The three new leaders have been working at Actes Sud for a long time, they know how it works,” said M me NYSSEN, cited in a press release.
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Acts Sud, publishing house founded in the Arles region (Bouches-du-Rhône) in 1978, has become one of the largest independent publishing groups in France. Hubert Nyssen, Belgian writer installed in Provence, made his business grow thanks to inspirations like that of editing in the mid -1980s the Russian Nina Berberova, who had not written anything for twenty years, or Paul Auster, unknown outside the United States.
He also made known in France Nancy Huston, Femina 2006 Prize, the Hungarian writer Imre Kertész, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002, the Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel in 2004, or the Saga Millenium of Swedish Stieg Larsson. In 2004, Actes Sud won the Goncourt Prize for the first time (with the Sun of the Scorta of Laurent Gaudé). After the death of Mr. Nyssen in 2011, the house won this award four times: in 2011 (Jérôme Ferrari), 2015 (Mathias Enard), 2017 (Eric Vuillard) and 2018 (Nicolas Mathieu).