Zulma

Zulma is an independent French publishing house founded in 1991 by Laure Leroy and Serge Safran. It is devoted mainly to contemporary literature, both French and international, and has built a distinctive catalogue that spans African, Anglophone, Arabophone, Catalan, Chinese, Korean, Eastern and Central European, French-language, Haitian, Indian, Indonesian, Israeli, Jamaican, Nordic, Persian, and Latin American writing. The name Zulma comes from a poem by Tristan Corbière, 'À la mémoire de Zulma'; Corbière's work also inspired the names of the publisher's early collections, which were borrowed from various poems in Les Amours jaunes. Since 2016, Zulma has published Apulée, an 'annual review of literature and reflection' directed by Hubert Haddad, which is first and foremost committed to defending the idea of freedom. The publishing house is located at 32, rue Myrha, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Its authors have won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis, the Prix Femina, the Prix Renaudot Poche, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire, the Prix du roman Fnac, and the Prix Médicis étranger, among others. Zulma remains a private, independent company.

Zulma was founded in 1991 by Laure Leroy and Serge Safran as a publishing house devoted mainly to contemporary literature, French and international. Its name was taken from a poem by Tristan Corbière, 'À la mémoire de Zulma', and Corbière's work also presided over the birth of the publisher's first collections, whose names were borrowed from various poems in Les Amours jaunes. Over the decades, Zulma built a catalogue that includes African literature (Adrian Igoni Barrett, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, Snapshots), Arabophone literature (Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin), Catalan literature (Miquel de Palol), Chinese literature (Eileen Chang, Guo Songfen), Korean literature (Eun Hee-kyung, Han Kang, Hwang Sok-yong, Hwang Sun-won, Kim Yu-jong, Lee Seung-u, Yi Sang, Le Chant de la fidèle Chunhyang, Histoire de Byon Gangsoé, Cocktail Sugar), Eastern and Central European literature (Gert Ledig, Stefan Heym, Ferenc Karinthy, Ytshak Katzenelson, Leo Perutz, Răzvan Rădulescu), French-language literature (Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Pascal Garnier, Hubert Haddad, Marcus Malte, Serge Pey, Alina Reyes, Abdourahman Waberi), Haitian literature (Jacques Stephen Alexis, Dominique Batraville, René Depestre, Dany Laferrière, James Noël, Makenzy Orcel, Jacques Roumain, Marie Vieux-Chauvet), Indian literature (Ambai, Anjana Appachana, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, R. K. Narayan, Rabindranath Tagore, Vâtsyâyana and Kalyanamalla), Indonesian literature (Pramoedya Ananta Toer), Israeli literature (Benny Barbash), Jamaican literature (Kei Miller), Nordic literature (Bergsveinn Birgisson, Soffía Bjarnadóttir, Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir, Andri Snær Magnason, Gunnar Gunnarsson, Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, August Strindberg), Persian literature (Zoyâ Pirzâd, Fariba Vafi), and Latin American literature (Vanessa Barbara, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Ricardo Piglia, Mayra Santos-Febres, Enrique Serpa, David Toscana). Since 2016, Zulma has published Apulée, an annual review of literature and reflection directed by Hubert Haddad, which is first and foremost committed to defending the idea of freedom. The publishing house is located at 32, rue Myrha, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Its authors have received numerous awards, including the Prix Médicis 2008 for Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès's Là où les tigres sont chez eux, the Prix Femina for Marcus Malte's Le Garçon, the Prix Renaudot Poche 2009 for Hubert Haddad's Palestine, the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire 2016 for Andri Snær Magnason's LoveStar, the Prix du roman Fnac 2014 for Benjamin Wood's Le Complexe d'Eden Bellwether, and the Prix Médicis étranger 2019 for Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's Miss Islande, among others.

• 2019

  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's Miss Islande wins the Prix Médicis étranger.

• 2016

  Zulma begins publishing Apulée, an annual review of literature and reflection directed by Hubert Haddad.

• 2016

  Andri Snær Magnason's LoveStar wins the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.

• 2016

  René Depestre and Hubert Haddad receive the Grand Prix SGDL de Littérature for their entire oeuvre.

• 2014

  Benjamin Wood's Le Complexe d'Eden Bellwether wins the Prix du roman Fnac and the Prix Baudelaire de la traduction.

• 2014

  Daniel Morvan's Lucia Antonia, funambule wins the Prix Charles-Oulmont.

• 2010

  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir's Rosa candida wins the prix Page des libraires - Sélection européenne and the Prix des libraires du Québec.

• 2009

  Hubert Haddad's Palestine wins the Prix Renaudot Poche.

• 2009

  Zoyâ Pirzâd's Le Goût âpre des kakis wins the Prix Courrier International du meilleur livre étranger.

• 2008

  Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès's Là où les tigres sont chez eux wins the Prix Médicis, the Prix du roman Fnac, and the Prix du jury Jean-Giono.

• 2008

  Benny Barbash's My First Sony wins the Prix grand public du Salon du livre.

• 2002

  Stéphane Héaume's Le Clos Lothar wins the Prix du jury Jean-Giono.

• 1991

  Zulma is founded by Laure Leroy and Serge Safran.

Independent literary publisher specializing in contemporary French and world literature, with a strong record of literary prizes.

• Apulée (annual review)

  Annual review of literature and reflection directed by Hubert Haddad, published since 2016.

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2. 2Zulma - Wikipédiafr.wikipedia.org