Editor Vanessa Springora, who became successful author with "
Consent
", the story that launched the Matzneff affair, will leave the management of Julliard, the Editis group announced on Monday.
She spent less than two years in this position.
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The Consent
to settle accounts"
"
Vanessa Springora will continue to collaborate with the Julliard editions, house to which she is very attached, as an independent editor and collection director
," the group wrote in a statement.
He evokes "
Vanessa Springora's wish to devote herself more to writing
", without further details.
Julliard had suffered in 2019 the departure of two renowned publishers, Bernard Barrault and Betty Mialet, who founded in 2020 their own house, Barrault-Mialet, within a competing group, Madrigall (Gallimard, Flammarion, etc.).
The task was particularly heavy: the star authors of Julliard like Philippe Jaenada, Jean Teulé or Mazarine Pingeot have also left.
Matzneff case
Her first book, "
Le Consentement
", published in January 2020, rocked the world of letters by writing how, as a teenager, she had been drawn into a relationship under the influence with a writer who had nearly 50.
A bookstore success, the book caused an electric shock, highlighting the subject of sexual violence against minors and the complacency that Mr. Matzneff has enjoyed in the Parisian literary world.
The new director of Julliard editions is Stéphanie Chevrier, who will combine this function with the one she already held as director of La Découverte editions.