{{short description|French writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} '''Bernard Privat''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛʁnaʁ pʁiva}}; 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 1955.<ref>{{cite web |title=La maison Grasset |url=https://www.grasset.fr/qui-sommes-nous/ |publisher=Grasset |access-date=11 August 2023}}</ref><ref>[https://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2007/07/14/03005-20070714ARTFIG90631-olivier_nora_le_diplomate.php 'Olivier Nora, le diplomate'] in ''Le Figaro'', 14 October 2007.</ref> 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''.<ref>[https://archive.today/20070701112738/http://www.edition-grasset.fr/historique/ Official Website for the editions Grasset]</ref> Bernard Privat left his job at the éditions Grasset in 1981.
==Bibliography== * ''Cet ange en moi'' (1943, poetry) * ''Églogues'' by Virgil (1948, translation) * ''Armance'' (1947) * ''Au pied du mur'', (1959, Prix Femina) * ''Une nuit sans sommeil'' (1966) * ''La Jeune Fille'' (1976) * ''L'Itinéraire'' (1982)
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