Biography

Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina

Prix Femina

The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women...

 for Au pied du mur in 1959.

He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset

Éditions Grasset

-Two famous novels:* Une histoire française of François Nourissier, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française)* Oublier Palerme of Edmonde Charles-Roux, Prix Goncourt...

 for over twenty-five years. As Bernard Grasset's nephew, Bernard Privat took the job in 1954. In 1967, along with his friend Jean-Claude Fasquelle, he merged his publishing company with the éditions Fasquelle. He would go on to publish authors such as Yves Berger, François Nourissier

François Nourissier

François Nourissier was a French journalist and writer.Nourissier was the secretary-general of Éditions Denoël , editor of the review La Parisienne , and an adviser with the Éditions Grasset Paris publishing house .In 1970, he won the Prix Femina for his book La crève...

, Françoise Mallet-Joris

Françoise Mallet-Joris

Françoise Mallet-Joris is the nom de plume of Françoise Lilar.She was born in Antwerp, the daughter of the writer Suzanne Lilar and the Belgian Minister of Justice and Minister of State Albert Lilar, and the sister of the 18th century art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar...

, Matthieu Galey, Françoise Verny, and Edmonde Charles-Roux

Edmonde Charles-Roux

Edmonde Charles-Roux is a French writer.-Origin :She is the daughter of Francois Charles-Roux, Ambassador of France, member of the Institute of France, and last president of the Suez Canal Company....

, who received the Prix Goncourt

Prix Goncourt

The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year"...

 with Oublier Palerme. Bernard Privat left his job at the éditions Grasset in 1981.