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Wave of departures at Grasset: 115 authors leave publishing house after ousting of CEO

More than a hundred writers have announced their departure from the Grasset publishing house following the announcement of the dismissal of its chairman Olivier Nora. They denounce an "ideological war"... Here's everything you need to know.

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00:03An unprecedented crisis is shaking up the French publishing world.
00:08115 writers published by Grasset announced that they were leaving the publishing house after the departure of its CEO, Olivier
00:16Nora.
00:17French President Emmanuel Macron reacted to the publisher turmoil during an appearance at a Paris Book Festival.
00:23L'éditeur, ce n'est pas simplement celui qui imprime des livres, c'est, paraît-il, une industrie, comme disait
00:29Malraux, mais c'est beaucoup plus.
00:31C'est un esprit, c'est une maison, et ça fait aussi partie du patrimoine littéraire.
00:36C'est nos libraires indépendants aussi, nos maisons de différents libraires, il y en a beaucoup ici.
00:41Donc c'est cette chaîne humaine qui importe, voilà.
00:44Et donc je pense que c'est très important d'exprimer, de défendre ce pluralisme, le respect des auteurs, l
00:49'histoire de ces maisons et leurs identités.
00:51Many authors have accused ultra-conservative billionaire Vincent Bolloré,
00:56who owns the Hachette Livre group, of having ousted Nora.
01:00In a joint letter, the authors denounced the ideological war waged by Bolloré to, quote,
01:06impose authoritarianism throughout culture and the media.
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