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ÉDITEUR DEPUIS 1708
Rights List
SPRING 2019
Contacts
Maÿlis Vauterin . mvauterin@editions-stock.fr
Thomas Guillaume . tguillaume@editions-stock.fr
Alix Orhon . aorhon@editions-stock.fr
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Highlights 5
Fiction 7
Commercial Fiction 13
Recent Highlights 17
Revisiting Classics 18
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My Night in the Museum 21
Narrative Non-Fiction 22
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Highlights 25
Essays 27
Cultural History 29
Current Affairs 30
Highlights
Dominique de Saint-Pern - Edmonde 5
Alain-Fabien Delon - Of the Race of Masters 6
Fiction
Isabelle Autissier - Forgetting Klara 7
Mahi Binebine - Rue du Pardon 8
Julien Blanc-Gras - Like a Warzone 9
Line Papin - Young Girls’ Bones 10
Paula Jacques - Rather the End of the World... 11
Aude Le Corff - The Rising Sea 12
Commercial Fiction
Caroline Caugant - Sunlight Hours 13
Agathe Ruga - Underneath this Happy Smile 14
Jacky Durand - Monsieur Henri‘s Secret Recipes 15
Zoé Shepard - Maggie Exton 16
Recent Highlights
Clara Dupont-Monod - The Revolt 17
Revisiting Our Classics
Jacqueline Harpman - I Who Have Never Known Men 18
Saphia Azzeddine - Dear Allah 18
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Highlights
Dominique de Saint-Pern
EDMONDE
English translation sample available
Under option in the Czech Republic (Metafora), Poland
(Czytelnik) and Spain (Circe)
Novel
March 2019
416 pages
« Fascinating. »
Télérama
Edmonde is the 1938. An ambassador’s daughter, Edmonde, grows up in Rome with a charismatic
quintessential French brother and a sister as beautiful as she herself is smart. All three of them, like the
woman: by turns Mitfords, are destined for extraordinary things.
mistress, a woman of Moving between Capri and Marseille, she lives an idyll with an Italian Prince,
action and even a spy! Camillo Caetani. He is enlisted in Albania and dies, leaving her with a wound that will
never heal. Meanwhile, her sister becomes mistress to Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini’s
minister for foreign affairs. In order to stay with him without compromising him,
she marries one of his lacklustre acolytes, and is soon expecting a child.
When World War II breaks out, Edmonde could have a comfortable, sociable
life, with her apartment in Saint-Germain in Paris and the family home in Marseille,
but that would not be true to her nature. As soon as she can, she enlists as a nurse
on the front, tending to French soldiers and distinguishing herself with remarkable
heroism for a young lady from a good family. She ends up in the Resistance and
working as secretary to one of the generals in the Liberation Army.
The full, historically accurate life of Edmonde Charles-Roux, told with incredibly
engaging panache by Dominique de Saint-Pern.
The journalist and novelist Dominique de Saint Pern is the author
of four novels, including Baronne Blixen which sold 50,000 copies
and has been translated into several languages.
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Highlights
Alain-Fabien Delon
OF THE RACE OF MASTERS
English translation sample available
Sold to Hungary (Holnap Kiado)
Debut novel
February 2019
180 pages
« A fantastic book. »
Christine Angot
The son of a famous Can a life be turned upside down in one night ? Alex Delval, eighteen-years-old,
actor faces his dreams of becoming an actor like his father. For the first time, he is offered a big
demons over the part. But very quickly, doubt sets in, and everything falls apart. Too much alcohol,
course of one fateful anxiety… a fight breaks out, and when he comes around, Alex finds himself face to
night, and wakes face with a man he doesn’t know: a sixty -year-old, good looking shrink who will
up a new man. become his accomplice and his confident in one night. Alex will dare to open up
and tell his story. He, child who was neither raised nor regarded by his father, yet
who remains proud to be a Delval. The face-off of a father and son who love to
hate one another. And the hope, at the end of the night, of finding a self.
Alain-Fabien Delon, born in 1994, is a model and actor. He is
the son of European film giant Alain Delon, star of Rocco and his
brothers and The Leopard. De la race des seigneurs is his debut
novel and is inspired by his personal life.
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Fiction
Isabelle Autissier
FORGETTING KLARA
Under option in the Czech Republic (Argo), Germany (Mare),
Italy (Rizzoli), Japan (Shueisha), Korea (Jaeum & Moeum), the
Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Romania (RAO), Russia (Phantom
Press), Slovakia (Inaque) and Spain (DeBolsillo)
Best-selling author in France and Germany
Novel
May 2019
324 pages
« Isabelle Autissier sails at literature as she sails at
sea around the globe, with passion. »
Figaro littéraire
Klara, Rubin, Iouri: Mourmansk, in the Arctic Circle. Lying on his hospital bed, Rubin knows he’s a
three generations condemned man. The only thing keeping him alive is an enigma: when he was just
in a snowbound, a child, his mother Klara, a scientific researcher for Stalin, was arrested in front of
man-eating Russia. him. What became of her? This taboo has cast a shadow over his whole life and
hardened his heart. A fisherman by profession, he’s happier squaring up to the
toughest elements than the company of men. He has even grown increasingly
unforgiving towards his own son, Iouri, treating the boy roughly on his trawler
during terrifying fishing trips in the Barents Sea. Iouri’s only means of escape was
his passion for birdwatching.
But when his father needs him, the now adult Iouri answers his call: don’t forget
Klara! Fight history and fight silence. What is Klara’s secret? As he investigates,
Iouri will uncover a vital truth that brings their lives together.
Forgetting Klara is a magnificent personal adventure, set against glimpses of a
harsh yet liberating natural world.
Isabelle Autissier is the first woman to have sailed solo around
the world. She writes novels, short stories and essays, including
her latest Soudain, seuls which sold 95,000 copies, was trans-
lated into ten languages and is currently under adaptation as an
international feature film. She is Chairwoman of WWF France.
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Fiction
Mahi Binebine
RUE DU PARDON
Under option in Germany (Lenos Verlag), Greece (Agra), Italy (La
Nave di Teseo), Lebanon (Hachette Antoine), Spain (Alfaguara)
and the United Kingdom (MacLehose Press)
Novel
May 2019
144 pages
The fate of a free Hayat grows up on rue du Pardon, a small unassuming street in Marrakech.
woman in a country It’s a poor neighbourhood, but one where spitefulness prospers. Hayat, who was
rooted in prohibitions. born blonde, provokes sniggering everywhere and shame in her mother. She’s
surrounded by a sordid jungle, with an evil-faced father and housewife neighbours
who hiss tauntingly like snakes. All these difficulties should get the better of the
child but, like a bird leaving its cage, she escapes and comes back to life thanks
to Mamyta, the greatest Eastern dancer in the kingdom, a sort of geisha – singer,
dancer, instructor, lover. Mamyta is both maligned and admired, and her songs are
a combination of the ribald and the sacred. When she dances all sadness evapo-
rates. With her help, Hayat learns how to turn a man’s head, to avenge hostility
with charm, and to forge a life for herself.
Mahi Binebine is the most famous living painter in Morocco.
Originally from a large complicated family, he has been a maths
teacher, painter, sculptor and novelist with some ten novels to his
name. Les Étoiles de Sidi Moumen (Flammarion 2011) was adapted
for the screen by Nabil Ayouch with the title Les Chevaux de Dieu
(Awarded a prize at the Cannes Film Festival). His last novel, Le
Fou du roi, was translated into six languages.
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Fiction
Julien Blanc-Gras
LIKE A WARZONE
Narrative Non-Fiction
January 2019
288 pages
« A delightful reflection on fatherhood
and our times. »
Les Inrockuptibles
A tender and funny Whilst the terror attacks are happening in Paris, the narrator becomes a father.
story of fatherhood His life changes completely. Amazed and exhausted, he watches the child grow up :
in times of terrorism. a little trouble-making, energetic hero. Buggy in tow, he zigzags through a disturbed
and traumatised Paris, where the miliatory patrols outside each nursery. How to
bring up a child in this uncertain climate ? In his search for answers, he explores
his family’s past by delving into the intimate journals of his grandfathers, Marcel
and Raphael. Two men with commonplace yet heroic destinies, who kept their
own traumas of war to themselves in order to protect their offspring.
At once a true-story novel of a new life, a manual for overwhelmed parents, a
reflection on the handing down of familial traditions, and a portrait of Paris, Like a
Warzone accomplishes the incredible feat of making us laugh in the face of tragedy.
Journalist, novelist, globe-trotter, Julien Blanc-Gras is the author
of eight works, including Touriste and In Utero (2015), which
received both public and critical success.
9Fiction
Line Papin
YOUNG GIRLS’ BONES
Line Papin was awarded with the Prix littéraire de la Vocation
in 2016
Under option in Spain (Alianza) and Vietnam (Tre)
Novel
April 2019
180 pages
« An intimate tale about three generations
of women. »
Le Figaro
The story of a young The story begins in the 1960s, during the Vietnam war, in a bombing raid in a
French-Vietnamese Vietnamese village. Ba is raising her three daughters alone here, and plans to go
girl’s exile in France, to Hanoi, the capital, to extricate herself from extreme poverty. But her family’s
her anorexia and everyday existence is shattered in 2005 when her daughters leave for the West.
how she came back The grandmother stays in Hanoi while her daughter moves to France with her
to life thanks to a granddaughter who – long after being ripped from her motherland – still carries
trip to Vietnam. within her memories of war, famine and bombs. When the child falls ill a few years
later, she ends up in hospital and her exhausted body remembers the battles her
grandmother waged to survive.
Only a trip back to Vietnam can save her: there she rediscovers the light and
human warmth of her childhood, and her Vietnamese roots.
Line Papin is 22 and was born in Hanoi. After studying literature,
she now studies history of art in Paris. Her first novel, L’Éveil,
published by Stock, won considerable acclaim and rights were
sold to several countries. Les Os des filles is her third novel.
10Fiction
Paula Jacques
RATHER THE END OF THE
WORLD THAN A SCRATCH
ON MY FINGER
Novel
January 2019
288 pages
« A breathtaking saga, delightful and
irreverent. »
Le Monde des Livres
A free-spirited Louison is a young woman full of life, headstrong and impulsive. Whilst the war
woman navigates is breaking out, she gets engaged secretly to an Italian living in Algeria. Deciding
the Second World to join him at all costs, she leaves her bourgeoise family in Normandy to try and
War with splendor reach the port of Marseille amidst the chaos. On her arrival, however, maritime
and selfishness. connections are cut off, and she finds herself living alone without any money in
an unfamiliar town. A man comes to her rescue : the mysterious and powerful
Tonton, head of the criminal gangland, who runs the underworld of prostitution
and who will reveal himself to be a powerful member of the resistance. Thanks
to him, Louison belongs to the rare group of priviledged people who, despite the
German occupation, lack neither the necessary nor the superfluous. Even though
she has no desire for a child to cramp her style, she falls in love with, and then
pregnant by, David, a young Jewish member of the resistance. Louison, who pays no
heed to the motherland in danger, will consider serving one cause only : her own.
Born in Cairo, Paula Jacques is a novelist. Deborah et les anges
dissipés received the Femina prize in 1991.
11Fiction
Aude Le Corff
THE RISING SEA
Under option in Germany (Insel Verlag)
Novel
March 2019
252 pages
2042. In Paris Lisa lives alone in a connected apartment in Paris. The cicadas’ chirping outside
transformed by is as overpowering as the heat; drones dart between buildings, spying on people;
ecological change, a and virtual beings speak to pedestrians in the street. Lisa participates in projects
woman investigates that are transforming the country but struggles to believe in this new world which
her mother’s is both bizarre and oppressive. The only person she confides in is her neighbour
past loves. Liam who works on developing microchips and connected homes. As for her mother
Laure, new technologies provide her with remedies for her anxiety and loneliness.
Lisa’s childhood was spent with a frequently absent and demented Laure who
conscientiously kept a diary. The child, who secretly read it, found out about a
painful period for her mother: during the 90s her boyfriend suddenly vanished
without a word in the middle of one summer. Laure never saw him again, and Lisa
still wonders about this. Her family has always stayed silent about this abandon-
ment and the upheavals it caused. What was really being hidden from her? She
decides to investigate.
Aude Le Corff has written two previous novels published by Stock,
both translated into German.
12Commercial Fiction
Caroline Caugant
SUNLIGHT HOURS
Rights sold to the United Kingdom (Hodder)
Women’s Fiction
January 2019
288 pages
Do monsters always Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition
breed monsters? when she gets news that her mother, with whom she has had no contact for years,
has died a brutal death. As she tries to understand the circumstances of this death,
she returns to V, the village where she grew up in the hills above the Mediterranean.
She rediscovers an unchanged landscape: the parched slopes she climbed as a
child, the torrenting river with its fierce spellbinding roar, but most of all haunting
memories of someone she left behind: Lila, her eternal friend, her achingly absent
soul sister.
Sunlight Hours paints a picture of three generations of women, united in spite
of themselves by the secrets of a river.
After studying contemporary literature at the Sorbonne, Caroline
Caugant decided to devote herself to writing while continuing to
work as a graphic designer. She lives in Paris.
13Commercial Fiction
Agathe Ruga
UNDERNEATH THIS HAPPY
SMILE
Debut novel
March 2019
304 pages
The friendship Brigitte and Brune are opposites in every way, but as soon as they meet at high
between two women, school they become best friends. They promise each other that together they can
based on mistrust, do anything. Bamboozling their way through the wild teenage years, these two
fascination, betrayal comets discover the pleasures of love, dancing, laughter and drinking till dawn
and the unspoken. while they dream of their future lives. But one strange summer day it all suddenly
stops. Without any explanation, Brigitte breaks off their friendships and disappears.
Brune simply has to cauterise the wound. Years go by, she turns thirty and finds
she’s pregnant. It’s at this point that Brigitte, who she hasn’t heard a word from,
comes back to haunt her: in her dreams, her lost friend is also expecting a baby.
Through this parallel, dreamed pregnancy, Brune retraces their friendship in
the hopes of understanding what came between them.
Agathe Ruga gave up her career as a dentist to write a very
popular literary blog. Sous le soleil de mes cheveux blonds is
her debut novel.
14Commercial Fiction
Jacky Durand
MONSIEUR HENRI’S SECRET
RECIPES
Rights sold to Germany (Rowohlt/Kindler, preempt)
Under offer in the UK
Novel
April 2019
216 pages
A tender and Monsieur Henri is an incomparable cook, one of those chefs who can delight the
mouth-watering taste buds with almost nothing. He runs Le Relais Fleuri, an unpretentious French
story of inheritance, bistro that still manages to give its customers everything they could wish for… on
taking place in a a plate. There’s one thing Henri is sure of: Le Relais will close when he goes. Under
French bistro. no circumstances will his son Julien take it over.
When Henri falls into a coma, Julien spends many hours holding his hand and
using his memories to try to bring back to life the culinary heritage of this very
secretive father. Soon Julien has a single obsession: finding the notebook of recipes
that he thinks he’s seen so many times in his life, where his father wrote down his
mysterious tricks… But while he searches, he comes across another secret, a family
one, and understands why his father let his wife leave without a word.
Jacky Durand is a culinary journalist. His sensuous, epicurean,
gastronomical columns delight thousands of readers and listeners.
15Commercial Fiction
Zoé Shepard
MAGGIE EXTON
Shortlisted for the Prix Landerneau Polar 2019
Crime
March 2019
400 pages
Thomas Lynch is Baltimore has been holding its breath for months. A serial killer nicknamed “the
on the track of the movie-buff” has been killing women, embalming them and making them up to look
“movie-buff” killer, like Grace Kelly. Everything takes off when Maggie Exton, wife of the Assistant
but inside one Chief of Staff at the Whitehouse, disappears.
investigation, there The investigation is entrusted to three very different men: Thomas Lynch, a
may be another... cop who fights his terrible moods with excessive donut consumption; Jack Miller,
a former FBI agent turned private detective; and Peter, an exceptionally intelligent
misanthropic geek. They could never have imagined where this would take them…
because in the days of the Patriot Act, America is drowning. Crowd surveillance,
the war on terror, cyber technology… the end justifies the means and the CIA will
stop at nothing. And definitely not at the unmentionable.
Zoé Shepard has written several hilarious satires about civil
servants, including Absolument dé-bor-dée ! which has sold over
400,000 copies. Maggie Exton is her debut novel.
16Recent Highlights
Clara Dupont-Monod
THE REVOLT
Rights sold to Spain (Circe) and the United Kingdom (Quercus)
TV rights under option for an international series
45 000 copies sold
Novel
August 2018
256 pages
« A Shakespearian drama narrated in a precise
prose, sharpened like a blade. »
L’Obs
1173, The French Richard Lionheart describes his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, a major medieval
kingdom. A figure who was queen of France and then England. In 1173, she and three of her
remarkable queen sons instigate a rebellion to overthrow the English king, Henry Plantagenet. How
marshals her sons and why does she persuade her children to rise against their father? And how does
to rebel against a son cope with this conflict of loyalties?
their father This book rife with poetry and cruelty takes us to the heart of the connection
between a mother and her favourite son – two individuals sustained by literature,
unspoken love, honour and violence. It depicts a very accessible Middle Ages
stripped of quaintness but full of emotion: modern and energising.
The extraordinary life of a powerful woman as told by her son, Richard Lionheart.
Clara Dupont-Monod has a degree in ancient French. She is a
journalist and has written several novels, including Le Roi disait
que j’étais diable, which sold over 60,000 copies. She has been
haunted by Eleanor of Aquitaine for many years.
17Revisiting Our Classics
Jacqueline Harpman
Novel
I WHO HAVE NEVER First published in 1995
272 pages
KNOWN MEN
May Waterstones’ Rediscovered Classics
Rights sold to the United
« A small miracle. »
Kingdom (Vintage)
The New York Times
50 000 copies sold in France
Forty women have been locked in a basement for years. What will happen when, one
day, without explanation, they are set free ?
The youngest – the narrator – has never lived in the outside world. The others, although
they don’t recall the circumstances which led to their imprisonment, recount their memories
of a life with husbands, children, towns…
Jacqueline Harpman was a Belgian
Mysteriously freed from their prison and let out into a deserted world, they roam far psychoanalyst and novelist. She is
and wide in search of other humans – and answers. Yet all they find are other basements, the author of several best-selling
identical to their own, populated with dead bodies. The young narrator will prove to be the works published by Stock, many
of them translated. Amongst her
key to the group’s survival. works, Orlanda won the Médicis
Nightmarish and tranquil, impassive and moving. prize in 1996.
Saphia Azzeddine
Novel
DEAR ALLAH First published in 2008
New edition in May 2019
192 pages
Rights sold to Germany (Wagenbach)
and Spain (Demipage)
60 000 copies sold in France « A deeply moving long prayer. »
English translation sample available ELLE
The feverish, enraged and humorous monologue of a young girl from Maghreb who
tries to escape entrapment.
Itinerary of a young Muslim girl today who will know poverty, prostitution, prison, Dear Allah
is a direct, raw account of women’s oppression, yet full of poetry and humor. While describing
the worst excesses of a society that is frozen in the patriarchy, braced upon a caricature of Saphia Azzeddine is the author of
Islam, Saphia Azzeddine delivers, more than an assessment, a message of faith and hope. seven novels among which, Bilqiss,
and, more recently, Sa mère.
18My Night in the Museum
Lydie Salvayre - Walk on till the Evening 21
Kamel Daoud - The Painter Devouring the Female Nude 21
Narrative Non-Fiction
Brigitte Benkemoun - Dora Maar‘s Notebook 22
20Series: “My Night in the Museum”
Lydie Salvayre
WALK ON TILL THE EVENING
Art / Narrative
April 2019
220 pages
Face to face of the Lydie Salvayre spent a whole night alone at the Picasso Museum during its
2014 Goncourt winner Picasso-Giacometti exhibition. Having had a lasting passion for The Walking Man (a
and Giacometti’s work that she sees as the very essence of art but had only previously seen photo-
The Walking Man graphed in magazines), she was sure to be profoundly moved when confronted
with so much beauty. And yet, seeing this “motionless, frozen but also moving
body, like a waves at sea that the cold has frozen the swell” produces only mild
irritation in her.
Is she illiterate in beauty? Is this sensibility passed on only among the well-to-do
to reinforce their exclusivity? Unless the space is cramping the piece and robbing
it of its profound message? She is in a turmoil and plagued by questions.
Between the lines – as the author reveals her relationship with her father,
her family of exiled Spanish communists, her obsession with humility and the
denunciation anchored within every injustice – the reader gradually discovers her
demanding expectations of art and her fear of death. A powerful, full-blooded read.
Lydie Salvayre has written some twenty books, translated into many languages, including Pas
pleurer which won the 2014 prix Goncourt (300,000 copies sold).
Kamel Daoud
THE PAINTER DEVOURING THE FEMALE NUDE
Sold to Germany (Kiwi), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), the Netherlands (Ambo/Anthos),
Taiwan (Utopie)
Face to face of The Meursault Investigation’s author and Picasso’s nudes.
21Narrative Non-Fiction
Brigitte Benkemoun
DORA MAAR’S NOTEBOOK
Art
May 2019
336 pages
Imagine holding By complete chance, Brigtte Benkemoun bought a diary online, and in it she
the address book of found private notes dating back to 1952. Twenty pages of telephone numbers and
Dora Maar, Picasso’s addresses for Cocteau, Chagall, Eluard, Giacometti…. the greatest artists of the
muse, in your hand! post-war period.
When she finds out that the address book belonged to Dora Maar, she decides
to track down information about this muse of Picasso’s. Two years of research
helped her understand the role each of these artist’s played in Dora Maar’s life,
and she homes in on the mystery and secrets of a woman who gave herself to
Picasso before giving herself to God.
There will be a retrospective of Dora Maar’s work at the Tate in London and
the Getty in Los Angeles in late 2019 and 2020
Brigitte Benkemoun is a journalist and writer. She has written
two previous books.
22Highlights
Hugo Mercier - The Sleep Revolution 25
Roland Portiche - Mathusalem‘s Children 26
Essays
Fabienne Brugère - One is Not Born, But Rather Becomes... 27
Annie Le Brun - Priceless 28
Cultural History
Evelyne Bloch-Dano - My Writers‘ Houses 29
Current Affairs
Etienne Huver and Boris Razon - New Wars 30
24Highlights
Hugo Mercier
THE SLEEP REVOLUTION
The amazing journey of a French
businessman
Rights sold to Poland (Amber)
Health & Well-Being
February 2019
288 pages
« Hugo Mercier, a sandman 2.0. »
Vanity Fair
A third of the world The success story of Hugo Mercier began when he came across a radically new
population struggle approach to sleep : by sending sound stimulations to the brain at specific moments
to sleep. Let’s Dreem during the night, scientists have been able to improve the quality of deep sleep
that we would sleep of patients. With a fellow student at university, he launched himself into the
better to live better! development of the first non-invasive solution to combat bad sleep. In 2014, the
start-up Dreem was born, its first product being an eye-mask to wear during the
night which measures brain activity and sends sound stimulations during deep
sleep. This book also gives an overview of the way in which our sleep functions,
the origin of its troubles, and how to tackle them. Our modern society is obsessed
with productivity, with spreading brain diseases damages. For Hugo Mercier,
slowing down and improving sleep are one of the key health issues for mankind.
Hugo Mercier got his A-levels at 14. Graduate of the École Poly-
technique and of Berkeley University in IT and Mathematics, CEO
at just 25, he was elected in 2017 as one of the best 35 European
innovators under 35 by MIT, and one of the 30 most influential
French people under 30 by Vanity Fair. À la conquête du sommeil
is his first book.
Discover the TEDx conference about Dreem.
25Highlights
Roland Portiche
MATHUSALEM’S CHILDREN
The secrets of prolonging life
Popular Science
February 2019
288 pages
« So that Mathusalem’s children may reach the
age of the Patriarchs. »
Le Point
For 100,000 years The hereafter of religions, Christianity’s resurrection of the body, the Foun-
mankind has tried tain of Eternal Youth, elixirs prepared by alchemists, transfusions performed by
everything to prolong charlatans, valleys of longevity, the supposed secrets of centenarians, the most
a life that has always outlandish of transplants – anything was acceptable if it added a few years to those
felt too short. nature had sparingly allocated.
This book, the first overview of the subject, examines the illusions, discove-
ries, failures and even the latest physiological findings. Antioxidants, hormones,
restricted calorie intake, telomerase, genetic programming… all the big questions
are explored in clear and simple prose illustrated with concrete examples. Will the
human race soon confront the watershed of reaching 150 as it currently does with
reaching 100? And more importantly, how would this change the way we think,
live together and understand life?
A doctor of philosophy and director of documentaries and popu-
lar science programmes, Roland Portiche travelled the world to
interview top specialists on the subject of prolonging life. This
exciting ambitious book presents his conclusions.
26Essays
Fabienne Brugère
ONE IS NOT BORN, BUT
RATHER BECOMES, A WOMAN
English synopsis available
Feminism
April 2019
176 pages
What does it mean Fifty years after the beginnings of feminism, where are we now? Women’s
to be a woman, at struggle by and for women is still diversifying to this day and is expressed on social
every stage in life? networks, with the written word and at demonstrations. But where are we really
in our day-to-day lives?
This book seeks to anchor feminism in a woman’s condition at birth, then age
10, 20, and so on, with each chapter dedicated to a particular age of a woman’s
life and the types of issues that age represents.
The examples are borrowed from philosophy, the lives of women in cultures
around the world, and even, in small doses, the author’s own personal experience.
Fabienne Brugère is a philosopher who specialises in aesthetics
and feminist theory. She is a professor of philosophy at the
University of Paris VIII.
27Essays
Annie Le Brun
PRICELESS
Rights sold to Spain (Cabaret Voltaire)
Art Theory
May 2018
176 pages
« The downwards spiral of contemporary art when
faced with the power of money. »
L’Express
In a world where This war is being waged on every front and particularly in the world of contem-
art is becoming porary art where beauty is the enemy. In this essay Annie Le Brun denounces and
merchandise, how do analyses the collusion between finance and a particular brand of contemporary art;
we refocus on beauty? this collusion aims to establish the commercial exploitation of something previously
seen as unquantifiable. For example, a few years ago the artist Anish Kapoor claimed
to own the ultra-black shade Vantablack, monopolising it so no other artist could
use it. Le Brun uses her intelligence and perspective to decipher the mechanisms
tending towards a generalised aesthetic and far-reaching normalisation.
In a world where capitalism contaminates art, and tries to erase any concept of
plurality, diversity and individuality, how can we fight this prescriptive debasement?
Will the brutality of money eventually mean we stop striving for the priceless?
Annie Le Brun is an artist, writer and literary critic who witnessed
the latter years of the surrealist movement. She is the author of
several books, including Du trop de réalité (Stock, 2000).
28Cultural History
Evelyne Bloch-Dano
MY WRITERS’ HOUSES
From Ronsard to Yourcenar
Rights sold to Italy (ADD Editore)
Literature Guide
May 2019
448 pages
10 illustrations
Everything in a Évelyne Bloch-Dano invites us to discover around one hundred writers’ houses
writer’s house in France and worldwide, from Combray for Proust, to Berlin for Brecht, via London
speaks, if we only for Dickens. This erudite, enlightened and yet playful book aims to establish the
know how to listen, connection between a house and a writer’s literary universe, a place and a life.
look and imagine. These pages are as much an invitation to read as to travel, and they include ten
hand-drawn illustrations.
The biographer and essayist Évelyne Bloch-Dano is the author of
many award-winning and frequently translated titles including,
most memorably, Madame Zola (1997, French Elle magazine’s
Reader’s Prize), Flora Tristan, la femme-messie (2001, François
Billetdoux Prize), Madame Proust (2004, Prix Renaudot for an
essay), Le Dernier Amour de George Sand (2010), Une jeunesse de
Marcel Proust (2017), as well as La Fabuleuse Histoire des légumes
(2008), Jardins de papier (2015), and the acclaimed personal
accounts La Biographe (2007) and Porte de Champerret (2013).
29Current Affairs
Etienne Huver and Boris Razon
NEW WARS
Tracking down Russian hackers
Investigative journalism
May 2019
Approx 250 pages
Who are the Russian The authors threw themselves into an 18-month investigation tracking down
hackers now seen Russian hackers. They met French hackers and went onto the front line of the
as symbols and cyberwar in Ukraine, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Here they infiltrated one of
figureheads of an the key Russian hacking forums where pirates sell their primary asset: data that
aggressive and can, in some cases, facilitate attacks on a whole nation.
shameless Russia? A whole war plays out it this world often featured in fiction, a world where there
is no tangible proof and where territory is disputed between spies, paranoiacs and
self-effacing geeks. In this war viruses are terrifying weapons and information a
vital resource.
A documentary New Wars directed by Etienne Huver and Boris Razon will be
broadcast on Arte.
Étienne Huver is an independent journalist who specialises in cybercrime. He won the 2016 Albert Londres prize for his documentary
Disparus, la guerre invisible de Syrie.
Boris Razon was formerly editor-in-chief of lemonde.fr and is now an independent consultant. He has written two novels: Palladium,
which has sold nearly 10,000 copies and has been translated, and Écoute.
30Essential Opium
(1930, 1999)
Backlist Translated in: Czech Republic (Rubato), Estonia (EYS), Russia (Agraf ), Spain
(Planeta), UK (Peter Owen)
Decoin, Didier
FICTION Le Bureau des Jardins et des Étangs
(2017)
Translated in: China ( Zhongyue Media), Czech Republic (Albatros), Germany
Autissier, Isabelle (Klett Cotta, at auction), Greece (Stereoma), Italy (Ponte Alle Grazie, preempt),
Lithuania (Alma Littera), Netherlands (Meulenhoff ), Poland ( WAB Foksal),
Soudain, Seuls Romania (Humanitas), Russia (Eksmo), Serbia (Geopoetika), Spain (Alfaguara,
(2015) at auction), Taiwan (Chi Ming), UK (MacLehose Press, WEL , preempt)
Translated in: Czech Republic (Argo), Germany (Mare Verlag), Italy (Rizzoli),
Japan (Shueisha), Korea (Jaeum & Moeum), Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Le Clézio, J.M.G.
Romania (RAO), Russia (Phantom Press), Slovakia ( Inaque), Spain (DeBolsillo)
Bitna, sous le ciel de Séoul
Film rights sold to Les Productions du Trésor (2018)
Translated in: China (Shanghai 99), Italy (La Nave di Teseo), Lebanon (All
Binebine, Mahi Prints), Spain (Lumen), Vietnam (Nha Nam Publishing), Korea and US (Seoul
Selection), Russia (Eksmo), Taiwan ( The Commercial Press), Turkey (Can)
Le Fou du roi
(2017)
Lévy, Justine
Translated in: Greece (Agra), Italy (La Nave Di Teseo), Lebanon (Hachette
Antoine), Morocco (Le Fennec), Spain (Penguin Random House), Switzerland Rien de grave
(Lenos Verlag), U.K. (MacLehose Press) (2004)
Translated in: Albania (Dituria), Bulgaria (Pulsio), China (Lijiang), Czech
Claudel, Philippe Republic (Jota), Germany (Antje Kunstmann), Italy (Frassinelli), Korea (Courrier
Books), Netherlands (Prometheus), Poland (Sonia Draga), Portugal (Ulisseia),
L’Archipel du Chien Russia (Makbel), Serbia (Globosino), Spain (Ambar), Sweden (Sekwa), Taiwan
(2003) ( The Commercial Press), Turkey (Epsilon), US (Melville House, WEL)
Translated in: Croatia (Bozicevic), Israel (Sendik), Italy (Ponte Alle Grazie),
Lithuania (Baltos Lankos), the Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (Otwarte), Orsenna, Erik
Portugal (Sextante), Russia (Eksmo), Spain (Salamandra for Castillan/Angle
for Catalan), Slovakia (Inaque), Syria (Ninawa), Taiwan (Ecus) UK (MacLehose L’Entreprise des Indes
Press, UK and Commonwealth). (2010)
Please check www.editions-stock.fr for further works by Philippe Claudel.
Translated in: Germany (C.H. Beck), Greece (Diamantis), Hungary (Ab Ovo),
Portugal ( Teorema), Serbia (Laguna), Spain ( Tusquets), Taiwan ( Ye-Ren), UK
(Haus), Ukraine (Ecem)
Cocteau, Jean
Le Potomak Sagan, Françoise
(1919, 2013)
For more details please contact us
Translated in: Brazil (Autentica), Italy (Clichy), Spain (Cabaret Voltaire)
Bonjour tristesse (e-rights) (1954, 2014)
Le Grand Écart Un certain sourire (e-rights) (1956, 2014)
(1923, 2013) Toxique (1964, 2009)
Translated in: Hungary (Europa), Spain (Cabaret Voltaire), UK (Peter Owen)
Un peu de soleil dans l’eau froide (1969, 2010)
Des bleus à l’âme (1972, 2009)
Orphée
(1927, 2005) Un profil perdu (1974, 2010)
Translated in: Italy (Einaudi) Des yeux de soie (1975, 2009)
Le Lit défait (1977, 2010)
La Voix humaine Le Chien couchant (1980, 2011)
(1930, 2002)
adapted for the big screen (“Voce umana” by Edoardo Ponti, Un matin pour la vie et autres
2013)
musiques de scènes (1981, 2011)
Translated in: Italy (Einaudi), Japan (Kobun-Sha), Sweden (Atrium)
Un orage immobile (1983, 2010)
La Fourmi et la Cigale (2010)NARRATIVE Bloch-Dano, Évelyne
Jardins de papier
NON-FICTION (2015)
Translated in: China (SDX ), Italy (ADD), Taiwan (China Times), US (University of
Berest, Anne Virginia Press, WEL)
Sagan 1954
(2014) Chagall, Marc
Translated in: Israel (Sendik), UK (Gallic, WEL) Ma vie
(2003)
Boltanski, Christophe Translated in: Czech Republic (Metafora), Croatia (Sareni Ducan), Germany
La Cache (Hatje Cantz), Korea (Da Vinci), Lithuania ( Versus), Macedonia (Congress
Service Center), Poland ( Irsa), Russia (Azbooka-Atticus), Slovenia (Studentska
(2015) Zalozba), Spain (Quaderns Crema), Turkey (Jaguar Kitap), UK (Peter Owen),
US (Da Capo)
Translated in: China (Beijing Red Dot), Germany (Hanser), Greece (Utopia), Italy
(Sellerio), Netherlands (Cossee), Poland (Oficyna Naukowa), Romania (Casa
Carti de Stiinta), Spain (Siruela), USA (University of Chicago Press, WEL rights) Cieutat, Michel
Rouyer, Philippe
Bosc, Adrien
Haneke par Haneke
Constellation (2012)
(2014)
Translated in: Argentina (El Cuenco de Plata), Brazil (Cosac Naify), China
Translated in: China (People’s Literature), Germany (Ullstein), Italy (Ugo (Beijing World), Germany (Alexander Verlag), Italy ( Il Saggiatore), Japan ( Wind
Guanda), Netherlands (Cossee), Romania (Humanitas), Russia (AST ), Serbia Rose – Suiseisha), Spain (Amaurota), Taiwan ( Yuan Liou), Turkey (Everest), USA
(Geopoetika), UK (Serpent’s Tail), USA (Other Press) (U.P of Mississippi)
Fournier, Jean-Louis Cymes, Michel
Où on va, papa ? Vivez mieux et plus longtemps
(2008) (2016)
Translated in: Albania (Ombra), Armenia (Actual Art), Brazil ( Intrinseca), Translated in: Germany (Goldmann), Italy (Rizzoli), Japan (Daiwa Shobo), Korea
Bulgaria (Kama), China (Shanghai 99), Croatia ( Znanje), Czech Republic (Open Books), Poland (Andromeda), Portugal (Lua de Papel), Russia (Ripol
(Computer Press), Denmark (Arvids), Egypt (GEBO), Estonia (Loomingu Classics), Spain (Paidos), UK (Quercus, WEL)
Raamatukogu), Finland (Siltala), Germany (DTV ), Greece (Melani), Hungary
(Ab Ovo), Israel (Matar), Italy (Rizzoli), Japan (Hakusuisha), Korea ( Yolimwon),
Netherlands (De Geus), Norway (Cappelen Damm), Poland (Ksiaznica), Finkielkraut, Alain
Portugal (Guerra & Paz), Romania (Nemira), Russia (Eksmo), Serbia (Stylos),
Slovakia (Q111), Spain (Destino), Sri Lanka (Samayawardhana), Sweden Un cœur intelligent
(Oppenheim), Taiwan (Aquarius), Turkey ( Yapi Kredi), US (Other Press, WEL), (2009)
Vietnam (Nha Nam)
Translated in: Albania ( Tirana Times), Argentina (Leviatan), Brazili(Record),
Please check www.editions-stock.fr for further works by Jean-Louis Fournier.
Catalonia (DE 1984), China (Nanjing Yilin Press), Croatia (Litteris), Italy
(Adelphi), Netherlands (Contact), Poland (Uniwersytet Warszawski), Romania
(Nemira), Spain (Alianza)
NON-FICTION L’Identité malheureuse
(2013)
Althusser, Louis
Translated in: Belgium (De Bezige Bij Antwerpen, Dutch language), Brazil
For more details please contact us (Record), Italy (Ugo Guanda), Norway (Document), Spain (Alianza)
L’Avenir dure longtemps,
Le Caisne, Garance
suivi de Les faits (1992, 2007)
Opération César
Écrits sur la psychanalyse (1993) (2015)
Écrits philosophiques Translated in: Finland (Art House), Germany (C.H. Beck), Italy (Rizzoli),
et politiques I (1994) Netherlands (De Bezige Bij), Poland (Sonia Draga), Romania (RAO), Russia
(AST ), Spain (Ediciones B), UK (Polity, WEL)
Écrits philosophiques
et politiques II (1995) Martel, Frédéric
Smart
(2014)
Baecque, Antoine de
Translated in: Brazil (Record), China (Beijing Yanziyue Culture & Art Studio),
Herpe, Noël India (Harper Collins India, WEL), Italy (Feltrinelli), Korea (Geulhangari), Spain
Éric Rohmer ( Taurus), Taiwan (Planter Press)
(2014)
Translated in: China (Shanghai People’s Publishing), Japan (Suisei-Sha),
Taiwan (Azure), US (Columbia UP, WEL) , Korea (Eulyos)Foreign acquisitions
Fiction Singer, Isaac Bashevis [Yiddish]
The Charlatan
Alcott, Kathleen [US] Susan Schulman Agency
America Was Hard to Find
The Wylie Agency Sotiropoulos, Ersi [Greece]
Je crois que tu me plais
Walkabout Literary Agency
Butler, Nickolas [US]
Little Faith Wieringa, Tommy [NL]
Lippincott, Massie & McQuilkin De Heilige Rita
Bezige Bij
Cheek, Chip [US]
Cape May Hozar, Nazanine [CA]
Curtis Brown Ltd via La Nou- Aria
velle Agence Curtis Brown UK
Cognetti, Paolo [Italy]
Senza mai arrivare in cima Non Fiction
MalaTesta Literary Agency
Cognetti, Paolo [IT]
Comencini, Cristina [Italy]
New York è una finestra senza
Da Soli
tende
Susanna Zevi Agency
Laterza editore
Comencini, Cristin [Italy]
Cognetti, Paolo [IT]
Essere Vivi
Tutte le mie preghiere guardano
Susanna Zevi Agency
verso ovest
Edt editore
Fuller, Claire [UK]
Bitter Orange
De Wever, Anuna
Luytens & Rubinstein
& Gantois, Kyra [NL]
Wij zijn het klimaat
Kushner, Rachel [US]
Bezige Bij
The Mars Room
Susanne Glomb Agency
Lilla, Mark [US]
The Once and Future Liberal
Niemi, Mikael [Sweden] The Wylie Agency
Koka Björn
Hedlund Literary Agency Power, Marianne [UK]
Help Me !
Nunez, Sigrid [US] Furniss Lawton Literary agency
The Friend
Brandt & Hochman Literary Stepanova, Maria [RU]
Agents Post-Memory
Suhrkamp
Olyslaegers, Jeroen [NL]
Wil Temelkuran, Ece [TU]
Bezige Bij How to Lose a Country
Caskie Mushens
Poschmann, Marion [Germany]
Die Kieferninsel Tuszynska, Agata [Poland]
Suhrkamp Romain Gary
(World rights : Stock)
Puenzo, Lucia [Argentina]
Los Invisibles Yazbek, Samar [Syria]
Mertin Literatur Agentur Ninenteen Women: Tales of
resilience from Syria
Reeves, Virginia [US] RAYA via ILA
The Behaviour of Love
RCW Young, Rosamund [UK]
The Secret Life of Cows
(Faber & Faber)
CONTACT
Fiction - Raphaëlle LIEBAERT - rliebaert@editions-stock.fr
Non Fiction - Sylvie DELASSUS - sdelassus@editions-stock.fr
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