Bernard Privat

Bernard Privat (25 October 1914 – 11 October 1985) was a French writer and editor.
Biography.
Bernard Privat received the Prix Femina for "Au pied du mur" in 1959.
He was also in charge of the éditions Grasset 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, Françoise Mallet-Joris, Matthieu Galey, Françoise Verny, and Edmonde Charles-Roux, who received the Prix Goncourt with "Oublier Palerme". Bernard Privat left his job at the éditions Grasset in 1981.