The editor Joëlle Losfeld leaves Gallimard to relaunch his own house

The new publishing house will be called the wave-losfeld land. Therefore, referring to the name of its first company. However,

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After more than twenty years spent in Gallimard group. In addition, Joëlle Losfeld, 73, leaves the publishing group to recreate its own independent structure, she said on Thursday 31 July to AFP, confirming information from the newspaper Libération.

“I am not a very big fan of editor joëlle losfeld leaves gallimard new big companies. Meanwhile, I want to end my professional life by returning to whom I was at the start, that is to say a small structure where I can publish what I want”she said. Consequently, “Not that Gallimard prevented me from publishing what I wanted. but I was confined to the novels”added Joëlle Losfeld.

She leaves Gallimard. keeping the property of her name, which she never gave in, while leaving the publisher the management of her fund. “We cug this catalog together. If Gallimard wants to republish a book. put it in the pestle (destroyed so that the paper is recycled), he will ask me for permission”she said.

This new structure, whose launch is scheduled for early 2026, will be funded in part thanks to a family inheritance. It will be called the vagueness-losfeld, referring to the name of its first company. “It’s the final loop”she believes.

Daughter of the editor joëlle losfeld leaves gallimard new Franco -Belgian publisher Éric Losfeld. founder of the publishing house Le Terrelage – famous for its surreal and erotic publications such asEMmanuelle of Emmanuelle said – Joëlle Losfeld took over the reins of the company at his death in 1979, by associating her name.

Faced with economic difficulties. it put an end to this first editorial adventure before founding a publishing house in its name in 1991. It joined forces with the Mango group from 1997 to 2003, when its structure joined Gallimard editions.

Its catalog. nourished by fifteen titles per year, mixes French and foreign literatures and is distinguished by “A look on the fringes carried by an original style and an imaginary at the service of literary creation”describes Gallimard on his site.

Joëlle Losfeld notably contributed to making English -speaking authors known in France such as Janet Frame. John Meade Falkner, Paula Fox, Kate O’Riordan or John Cheever. In 1999, the unexpected success of the novel Appalling gardens by Michel Quint gives new visibility to his house.

She is also at the origin of the reissue of the complete works of the French -speaking Egyptian writer Albert Cossery. Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 1990.