Éditions Gallimard is one of the leading French book publishers. The Guardian has described it as having "the best backlist in the world". In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles.
Découvertes Gallimard is an encyclopaedic collection of illustrated, pocket-sized books on a variety of subjects, aimed at adults and teenagers. It was created by Pierre Marchand and published by Éditions Gallimard. The first volume À la recherche de l'Égypte oubliée appeared in November 1986, written by French Egyptologist Jean Vercoutter. These scholarly little books then released in successive volumes, without a systematic plan, each of which is structured like a separate book. The collection currently contains more than 700 books, including spin-offs.
Henri-Jean Martin was a leading authority on the history of the book in Europe, and an expert on the history of writing and printing. He was a leader in efforts to promote libraries in France, and the history of libraries and printing.
Michel Mohrt was an editor, essayist, novelist and historian of French literature.
Jacques de Lacretelle was a French novelist. He was elected to the Académie française on 12 November 1936.
Claude Mauriac was a French author and journalist, the eldest son of the author François Mauriac.
Ginette Mathiot, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, was a French food writer and home economist.
Henri Berr was a French philosopher and lycée teacher, known as the founder of the journal Revue de synthèse. He is credited with moving the centre of gravity of the study of history in France, in accordance with his ideas on "synthesis". Despite the lack of recognition of his concepts by the academic establishment of the time, and its adverse effect on his own career, he had a large impact on the younger generation of French historians He is considered to have anticipated significant aspects of the later Annales School.
Marcel Brion was a French essayist, literary critic, novelist, and historian.
Nicole Avril is a French academic, actress, model, and writer.
Charles Le Quintrec was a French poet. He was born in Plescop and died in Lorient in Brittany.
The Marcel Proust Prize is a former literary award of France. Created by the municipal council of Cabourg, in Normandy, in 1972, it was awarded until 1994; the recipient was a work which evoked that of Marcel Proust. Writers were awarded 5,000 francs for their work.
Catherine Hermary-Vieille is a French writer, and winner of the Prix Femina 1981, for Le Grand Vizir de la nuit.
Francis Ryck pseudonym Delville Yves (1920–2007) was a French writer.
Bernard Fixot is a French publisher, founder and Chairman of the board of publishing house XO Editions.
André Corthis, néeAndrée Magdeleine Husson was a 20th-century French writer. She received the prix Femina in 1906. Andrée Husson is the niece of painter Rodolphe Julian.
Charles Derennes was a French novelist, essayist and poet, the winner of the Prix Femina in 1924.
Clément Vautel, pen name of Clément-Henri Vaulet was a journalist, novelist and playwright of Belgian origin, naturalized French (1897).
Pierre Bourgeade was a French man of letters, playwright, poet, writer, director, journalist, literary critic and photographer. A descendant of Jean Racine, he was also the brother-in-law of the writer Paule Constant.
As of 2018, five firms in France rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: Éditions Lefebvre Sarrut, Groupe Albin Michel, Groupe Madrigall, Hachette Livre, and Martinière Groupe. Other major book publishers in the 2010s include Éditions Gallimard.
