Au Diable Vauvert

Au Diable Vauvert is a French literary publisher created at the dawn of the year 2000 in the Camargue gardoise, with an editorial model inspired by Paul Ochakovski-Laurens. The publishing house aims to open up genres and promote new voices from pop cultures, as well as defend young impertinent French authors and visionary precursors.

Created at the dawn of the year 2000 in the Camargue gardoise, on an editorial model and curiosity inspired by Paul Ochakovski-Laurens, the editions Au diable vauvert first aimed to open up genres and make recognized new voices of writers emerging from pop cultures, then just published in paperback, like Gaiman, Ayerdhal, Bordage, Morrow, Brite, Butler. Having set as another mission to defend young impertinent French authors like Nicolas Rey, Régis de Sà Moreira and Thomas Gunzig, without forgetting visionary precursors like Gibson and the UFO David Foster Wallace, acquired from creation, the editions Au diable vauvert proudly claim since Jehan Rictus voices making literary material from reality and living language, breaking with any academicism of style, ironic, transfictional and literarily queer. Soon the great Welsh, Coupland and Dan O’Brien joined a house created to defend them best, as did new stars of the imagination Bacigalupi and VanderMeer, discoveries Hervier, Blanc-Gras, Monnery, Titiou Lecoq or poets Felix Jousserand and Oxmo Puccino. Against winds and marshes the house has been able, in an increasingly centralized and concentrated sector, to continue without ever breaking a unique policy in the service of its authors, made of enormous translations, editorial follies, successes and encounters that were as many founding adventures, from Coralie Trinh Thi, Simon Casas, Wendy Delorme or Nikki Gemmell to Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, and from Patrick Dewdney to the success of Juan Branco, among many others. This year of our twenty years, which will coincide with the centenary of Bukowski, rebel symbol of eternal youth,...

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