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Calmann-Lévy

Calmann-Lévy was founded in 1836, and its building's pediment is inscribed with the names of some of literature's greatest figures, including Balzac, Baudelaire, D'Annunzio, Dumas, Gorki, Flaubert, Hugo, Lamartine, Pirandello, Renan, Sand and Stendhal. The prestige of the past, however, has never overshadowed the ambitions of the present. On the contrary, Calmann-Lévy has also been committed to creating collections that have quickly become flagship brands in their own right, such as "Traduit de," founded in 1946, which publishes translations of Knut Hamsun and Hermann Hesse among others, and "Liberté de l'esprit," created in 1947 by Raymond Aron, who is also published by the company alongside Hannah Arendt, Robert Paxton and Léon Poliakov. In an eponymous collection created in partnership with the Mémorial de la Shoah Jewish museum and documentation centre in Paris, Calmann-Lévy publishes a range of texts whose scientific and historical value represents a significant advance in the understanding and knowledge of the Holocaust. In 2010, Calmann-Lévy created "France de toujours et d'aujourd'hui," a French collection devoted to regional literature. As a result, such novelists as Jean Anglade, Jean-Paul Malaval and Françoise Bourdon (all of whom are identified with the genre) have joined the line-up. The "Robert Pépin Présente" collection of detective novels, launched in 2011, follows in the footsteps of authors who have made the company's reputation in the genre, such as Patricia Highsmith, Donna Leon and, more recently, the young Donato Carrisi, whose first novel, The Whisperer, has become a worldwide bestseller. "Robert Pépin Présente" will soon be welcoming Michael Connelly to its lists.
Calmann-Lévy owns the following brands:

• Editions 1: the brand's reputation is based on the popular appeal of its publications and authors, including Pierre Bellemare. Although its editorial stance is geared to popular works, Editions 1 is currently also moving toward extremely well-documented historical essays and novels.
• Orbit: A Hachette-brand group based in Great Britain, the United States and Australia, this imprint has had a presence in France since late 2009. It focuses exclusively on imaginative literature in all its forms, from fantasy to science fiction, with vampires and zombies enjoying pride of place as represented by some of the genre's masters, including Brandon Sanderson, Kristin Cashore and Lilith Saintcrow.
  

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