Olivier Barrot on Les Editions Gallimard
Olivier Barrot has presented the literary program Un livre, Un Jour (A Book a Day) daily on channels France 3 and TV 5 Monde since 1991. In 2009, the year in which he celebrated his 4,000th program, he created Un Livre Toujours (Always a Book), a weekly program devoted to paperback books.
Along with Thierry Taittinger, Olivier is the co-founder of 'Senso'. He has been co-director of the magazine since 2001. He has worked as a journalist for Le Monde, where he has written the \u201cBooks\u201d and \u201cTravel\u201d sections since 1986, for the Canal+ TV (\u201cdemain\u201d (Tomorrow) then \u201cLa grande famille\u201d (The Extended Family) from 1988 to 1992) and for Pariscope, as founder-manager of the Parispoche (Pocket-Paris) supplement.
Gaston Gallimard, the\xa0 son of a family of wealthy art collectors, took over the Nouvelle Revue fran\xe7aise from his friend Andr\xe9 Gide more than 100 years ago, to establish a "publishing counter" and an enduring company which has remained independent and successful ever since.\xa0 Most major writers \u2013 French and otherwise \u2013 have appeared in Gallimard\u2019s impressive catalogs over the past century.\xa0 Jacques Rivi\xe8re, Jean Paulhan, Andr\xe9 Malraux, Albert Camus and Philippe Sollers, all worked with Gallimard. The company publishes in all genres \u2013 from poems to detective novels \u2013 in either its famous white-covered paperbacks or its prestigious Biblioth\xe8que de la Pl\xe9iade collection.
I met with Olivier in Ottawa to talk about this Gallimard, and how one might best go about collecting its books.
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