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Éditions de la Différence is a French publishing house founded in 1976 by Joaquim Vital, the philosopher Marcel Paquet as well as the writer and art historian Patrick Waldberg. During the same year Colette Lambrichs joins also the group.

History
In 2011, after the death of Joaquim Vital, Claude Mineraud becomes the president of the publishing house and Colette Lambrichs the literary director. Since then, the house was completely restructured and in particular from January 1st, 2012 establishes its own distribution team for France, Belgium and Luxembourg. From SARL, it is transformed into a SAS with a capital of 1,393,775 euros. The company counts 19 employees in 2012.

Being in a deficit situation, it was put into compulsory liquidation on June 20, 2017. On February 12, 2019, the Court of Commerce of Paris canceled this liquidation, allowing the company to resume its activity,.

The presidency of the Éditions de la Difference is taken over on January 10, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Archenoult, art editor, who has worked in particular with César et Max Ernst. The editorial line is now mainly focusing on art books.

Editorial policy
The catalog of the Éditions de la Difference, before the closing and the reopening of the compagny, included more than 2,000 titles (350 artists and 960 authors). On average, 50 books were published every year.

The average circulation, through all sectors, was around 2,800 copies per title in 2000,,. The Éditions de la Difference publishes French literature (collections : “Littérature”, “Œuvres complètes”) as well as foreign literature, poetry (collections : “Clepsydre”, “Le Fleuve et l'Écho”, “Orphée”), essays (“Les Essais”) and art books (“Les Irréguliers”, “Mains et Merveilles”, “Matière d’Images”). The publisher proposes two pocket-format collections :"Minos" and "Orphée".

Under the influence of Joaquim Vital, the Éditions de la Difference published many Portuguese authors. The house is also interested in literature from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe among others.

From 1987,the Éditions de la Difference decides also to publish the complete works of classical and contemporary authors : Homère, Virgile, Dante, Pindare, Alexandre Vvedenski, Fernando Pessoa, Ladislav Klíma, Friedrich Hölderlin, Henry James, Claude Michel Cluny, Michel Butor, Abdellatif Laâbi, Mohammed Dib, Abdelkébir Khatibi, Jean Pérol, Michel Waldberg, etc.

Poetry occupies a prominent place in the publisher's catalog, particularly from 1989 with the launch of the "Orphée" collection (bilingual poetry in pocket-format) by Claude Michel Cluny. The collection receives the Diderot-Universalis prize in 1991. After being interrupted in 1998 for financial reasons, the collection was reborn on May 24, 2012.

The “Minos” collection, created in 2002, republishes works that were inaccessible, many of which belong to the house's literary estate.

Literary translation
Several translators from the publishing house have received an award. The national translation grand prize was awarded to Erika Abrams en 1994. Jean Pavans, received the Halpérine - Kaminsky  Consecration prize from the “Société des gens de lettres(SGDL)”.

Bibliophilia
The Éditions de la Difference offers luxury editions illustrated and signed. For instance, the works of the painter Alekos Fassianos and the poet Michel Waldberg, printed in a limited number of 125 copies.

Some writers
• Adonis

• Raphaël Aubert

• Jacques Bellefroid

• Roger Bodart

• Michel Butor

• Claude Michel Cluny

• Soufiane Bensabra

• Mohammed Dib

• Michel Houellebecq

• Jacques Izoard

• Ladislav Klíma

• Abdellatif Laâbi

• Denis Langlois

• Mohamed Leftah

• Yves Mabin Chennevière

• Pierre Mérot

• Dominique Noguez

• Carl Norac

• Fernando Pessoa

• Michel Waldberg

• Jean Pérol

Some artists
• Pierre Alechinsky

• Arman

• Miquel Barceló

• César

• Corneille

• Dado

• Ipoustéguy

• Pierre Klossowski

• Michel Macréau

• Jean-Luc Parant

• Júlio Pomar

• Niki de Saint Phalle

• Leonardo Marcos