The Belgian born editor and author, died last month. He created, in my opinion, at the age of 53, this century's greatest publishing house, the "Actes Sud" editions.
33 years later, with a catalogue of 5 000 titles, the "Actes Sud" editions publish, on average, 350 books a year.
Living by the Jules Renard quote: " for the masterpiece to come to you, you need to give it a sign», he will have discovered and translated great foreign authors: from Nina Berberova to Paul Auster, from Nancy Huston to Stieg Larsson (Millénium) and the 2 nobel price winners, Imre Kertérsz (Hungarian) and Elfriede Jelinek (Austrian)…