Paris (AFP)
The Swiss novelist Joël Dicker announced Wednesday his intention to leave his publisher to try the adventure of self-publishing, an unprecedented choice for such a well-read author.
This detective, very popular since "The Truth about the Harry Quebert affair" (2012), had been spotted by the Editions de Fallois, to which he had remained faithful until then.
"After ten years in this house, and three years after the disappearance of Bernard de Fallois to whom I owe everything, I decided to leave the Editions de Fallois at the end of this year 2021", he wrote in a press release sent to AFP.
"Not imagining myself with another publisher than the one who taught me everything, it is naturally that I choose to create my own editorial structure, which will see the light of day on January 1, 2022", he said added.
Bernard de Fallois died in January 2018 at the age of 91, around thirty years after having created his publishing house.
Joël Dicker also specified that he was thus leaving Hachette (Lagardère group) to join the distribution network of his competitor Editis (Vivendi group), Interforum.
He must give "more news" on his new publishing house "in the fall", he said.
According to the GfK institute, in 2020 he was the fifth most read author in France, with 735,000 copies sold, behind Guillaume Musso, Virginie Grimaldi, Michel Bussi and Franck Thilliez.
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