Gallimard Group Sodis Gallimard Group News Booksellers Publishers-Distributors Contact us Home > Gallimard Group > Gallimard Group Gallimard Gallimard Group Important dates Les Éditions Gallimard, called until 1919 the editions of the Nouvelle Revue française and until 1961 the Librairie Gallimard, are a French publishing group. The publishing house was founded by Gaston Gallimard in 1911. The Gallimard group is currently managed by Antoine Gallimard. Considered one of the most important and influential publishing houses in France, especially for 20th century and contemporary literature, Gallimard has in 2011 a catalog made up of 36 Goncourt prizes, 38 writers who received the Nobel Prize for literature, and 10 Pulitzer Prize-winning writers. The main dates ... February 1, 1909 : Second “first number” of the review “NRF”, at the initiative of a group of six writers, including André Gide. In 1911 , requested by André Gide and Jean Schlumberger, Gaston Gallimard took over the management of the Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue française. Creation of the Blanche collection. First book published: L'Otage by Paul Claudel. 1917 : On the side of Swann , of Proust, reappears at the NRF. 1919 : Birth of Editions Gallimard under the name Librairie Gallimard. Goncourt Prize for In the shadow of young girls in bloom (Marcel Proust). 1921 : Creation of the reading committee. 1929 : Installation rue Sébastien-Bottin, Paris 7th. 1931 : Creation of the “From the whole world” collection. 1932 : Distribution agreement with Hachette. 1933 : Editions La Pléiade, initially independent, become a collection of the house. 1945 : Creation of the “Série noire” by Marcel Duhamel. 1951 : Céline signs with Gallimard. The editorial group took shape in the 1950s with the acquisition of Tel (publishers of Art books), Editions Denoël, Editions de La Table Ronde and Editions Mercure de France. The house takes on a new dimension in these years. The building on rue Sébastien-Bottin was raised by two floors in 1963 . 1971 : Gallimard creates its own distribution subsidiary, SODIS, and reorganizes its sales departments. 1972 : Creation of the “Folio” collection which announces the systematic use of the collection intended for the general public. 500 titles appeared between 1972 and 1973 . The "Folio" collection will soon be available in many series "Folio essays", "Folio history", "Current folio" ( 1985 ), "Bilingual folio" ( 1990 ), "Theater folio" ( 1993 ), "Classical folio" ( 1994 ), “Police Folio” ( 1998 ), “Folio SF” ( 2000 ), “Folio à 2 € ” ( 2002 ), “Folio Biographie” ( 2005 ), “Folio BD” ( 2011 ). Lancement d'un département de livres pour enfants : Gallimard Jeunesse (qui devient une filiale autonome en 1991). Dès 1974, la diffusion de Denoël et du Mercure de France est assurée par les représentants du CDE. 1975 : Décès de Gaston Gallimard. Son fils Claude devient président de la maison. 1986 : Lancement de la collection « Découvertes ». 1988 : Antoine Gallimard, successeur désigné de son père prend la présidence de la société. 1997 : Gallimard publie le premier tome de Harry Potter. 2003 : Madrigall, le holding familial contrôlé par Antoine, rachète les 40 % détenus par les actionnaires minoritaires. 2008 : Le Clézio prix Nobel de littérature. 2009 : La NRF fête ses 100 ans. Gallimard crée en 2009, en association avec Flammarion et La Martinière, Eden Livres, une plateforme de distribution numérique, permettant à des revendeurs (libraires, opérateurs) de relayer son catalogue numérique de nouveautés et de titres du fonds. 2010 : Le groupe Gallimard rachète à Bayard sa filiale spécialisée dans la diffusion de livres, la Sofédis. 2011 : Gallimard fête ses 100 ans et la SODIS ses 40 ans. Le 15 juin, la rue Sébastien-Bottin (des n°1 à 7) est rebaptisée rue Gaston-Gallimard. 2012 : 40e anniversaire de Folio. Le 26 juin, RCS MediaGroup accepte de vendre le groupe Flammarion au groupe Gallimard (Madrigall S.A.). On September 5, the Gallimard group, through the Madrigall holding company, acquired Flammarion editions and its subsidiaries, and became the third largest French publishing group and the first independent. > Click here Events 40,000 books offered on 27 motorway rest areas Literary Prizes Prix des Deux Magots 2020 Prix des Romancières 2020 The finalists of the Libr'à Nous 2020 prizes Foreign book prize JDD / France Inter 2020 The first selection of the 2020 RTL-Lire Grand prize The 2019 Interallié prize for Karine Tuil Le Renaudot 2019 for Sylvain Tesson Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke, Nobel Prize for Literature 2018 and 2019 Sade Prize 2019 Prix des libraires de Nancy - Le Point 2019 Prize for Arabic Literature 2019 Agenda Meetings and Signatures Log in | Legal notices | Terms of use