After having slammed the door of Fayard, the most read novelist in France chose the subsidiary of Gallimard and hopes to give a new tour to her writer career.
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In the French publishing world, it is the transfer of the year. After having slammed in June the door of Fayard, Virginie Grimaldi, the most read novelist in France, is about to join Flammarion. A new repercussion of the entrance to the Hachette group in the Bolloré galaxy. The contract has not yet been signed, but the author of the first day of the rest of my life (City Editions, 2015) has just made its decision, and announced it to the publishers concerned, Monday October 10.
“This case monopolized me all summer, explains Virginie Grimaldi. Now, I am serene and excited. I can’t wait to start this new adventure.” Next step: the publication of her next novel, at Flammarion , probably in the spring of 2023. It all started on March 24. That day, Hachette announced the departure of Sophie de Closets, the president of Fayard. Obviously, this importance editor does not want to continue working in the group, then about to pass in the fold of Vivendi, therefore by Vincent Bolloré.
By learning the news, Virginie Grimaldi wonders: she who has established a relationship of great confidence with Sophie de Closets must leave Fayard in turn? In the immediate future, she reassures the officials of Fayard and Hachette, who are worried about a possible departure from their star author – her novels sold 827,561 copies in 2020, and 877,000 copies in 2021, according to The Le Figaro-GFK list. “I do not see a reason to leave, unless you replace Sophie with someone who does not suit me, or if other members of the team I appreciate also leave,” she said. In June, the appointment of Isabelle Saporta to replace Sophie de Closets changes the game.
“I left without plan B”
Virginie Grimaldi is a little surprised by this choice. But it was above all the first words of the new leader, in Le Monde, on June 13, which disturb her. She distances her distance from the previous president, and criticizes the way Fayard paid a source to feed an investigation into the former President of the Republic Nicolas Sarkozy. “After reading these remarks, who disavowed the authors of the house, I immediately decided to leave Fayard, now explains Virginie Grimaldi. By remaining, I would have endorsed a political operation, a system which seemed to me to favor the rather shareholders that the authors. I am very attached to the freedom of the authors. I therefore left, without plan B. “
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