Founded: 1857
Fayard is a trade publisher with over 150 years of history. Politicians, journalists, intellectuals and novelists contribute to its prestigious catalogue. It discovers, supports and promotes authors, helping some of them to become “classics”.
Fayard is the imprint for intellectual essays that enrich our understanding of the world, fuel debates, and keep society moving forwards. It’s home to long-form works of investigative journalism like La Face cachée du Monde [The Dark Side of Le Monde], Les Fossoyeurs [The Gravediggers] and Le Livre noir de l’agriculture [Agriculture Exposed], which are crucial tools for democracy; political and topical non-fiction; commercial French literature that reconciles quality with a wide readership; and foreign literature with international reach. At the heart of Fayard’s DNA lies a desire to give everyone the keys to understanding our world. Determinedly forward-thinking, in 2023 Fayard launched a graphic novel imprint, Fayard Graffik, and gave their backlist a new lease of life with Œuvres Libres.
Fayard is a greenhouse that tends and protects its young plants to help them grow. Its pluralist, collective approach aims to serve the greater good.
Several imprints have joined Fayard over the years. They include Pluriel paperbacks, Mazarine, Pauvert and Mille et Une Nuits.