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The “Pléiade”: behind the scenes of a legendary collection

2023-03-01T15:10:52.161Z


How do we get in? How is a volume edited and then made? Who are the next authors on the list? Learn all about what constitutes an editorial holy grail for writers dead or alive.


On March 2, 2023, the great American writer John Steinbeck, author of The

Grapes of Wrath

and Of

Mice and Men

, Nobel Prize winner, who died more than half a century ago, entered the "Library of the Pleiade.

Novels

, by John Steinbeck, is the 666th title in the catalog

.

A consecration.

Created in 1931 and hosted by Gallimard since 1933, this prestigious collection is home to the cream of French and international writers.

They most often enter it after their death – but eighteen authors have had the honor of entering the “Pléiade” during their lifetime

.

Antoine Gallimard, the CEO of the house located rue Gaston-Gallimard, has also been the director of the “Pléiade” since 1988 – to which he is particularly attached.

Hugues Pradier has been its editorial director since 1996. Admission choices always give rise to comments and questions.

The two men explain how one enters it, or not.

How do you get into La “Pléiade”?

There are as many ways to enter the “Pléiade”…

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Source: lefigaro

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