Prix ​​Goncourt: the crowning year for the publishing group Les Arènes and L’Iconoclaste

2023-12-11 16:57:41

Published on Dec 11 2023 at 4:55 p.m.Updated Dec 11 2023 at 5:57 p.m.

It’s a year that no one in the publishing group bringing together the houses Les Arènes and L’Iconoclaste will forget. At the beginning of November, Jean-Baptiste Andrea’s fourth novel, “Veiller sur elle”, published by L’Iconoclaste, was awarded the Goncourt prize. A coronation auguring a commercial success that is already more than palpable (500,000 copies have been sent to points of sale to date) which rewards both the author and an entrepreneurial adventure started at the end of the 1990s when the two houses of The twin editions were created almost jointly. And which was celebrated as it should be.

“It wasn’t too Germanic an atmosphere, we sang ‘we brought the cup home’. It was a lot of emotion,” rewinds Laurent Beccaria, historic boss of the Arènes who has also chaired L’Iconoclaste since the death, in June, of his wife Sophie de Sivry, who had headed this publishing house since its creation. In the mid-2010s, it repositioned L’Iconoclaste – long focused on beautiful books – on general literature. A success.

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