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Culture. Writer Boualem Sansal Decided to Leave His Historical Publisher Gallimard
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Gallimard had reacted on Thursday with « sadness and disappointment » to the announcement of the departure of his ranks of the writer detained for a year in Algeria. Boualem Sansal joins Hachette, a subsidiary controlled by the billionaire
The Franco-Algérien writer Boualem Sansal, who spent a year in prison in his native country, broke up with Gallimard, his historical publisher. His arrival at Hachette should be announced this Friday morning.
The writer Boualem Sansal, a leading figure in the Gallimard editions, would have decided to leave the ship. According to Ouest-France, what would cause the writer to break a twenty-seven-year-old collaboration would simply be remuneration. The author of 2084. La Fin du monde explains that Grasset, a subsidiary of Hachette Livre owned by the Lagardère group, would have offered him more advantageous terms of remuneration than Gallimard. This deci…
Historically associated with the Gallimard editions, the 81-year-old author released in November after a year in prison in Algeria is approached by Hachette, owned by Vincent Bolloré.
The writer, whose next book will tell the story of his imprisonment in Algeria, leaves the house which had published it for almost thirty years and which fought for his release, reports "the World" on Thursday, March 12.
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NotreTemps.comThe academician published most of his books in the publishing house, from "Le Oath of the Barbarians" to "Livre, his last book. Antoine Gallimard expressed his "deception".
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