The editions Métailié is a Publisher Paris ienne, founded in autumn 1979 and directed by Anne-Marie Métailié.

The house is founded with an initial capital outlay of 100.000 F.

Specialized initially in the Portuguese-speaking literature and Spanish-speaking in which it refers from now on, it begins with a text from 1557 Nus, wild and anthropophagous of Hans Staden, the account of a German mercenary meeting the Tupinambas Brésil to convince them that its flesh was unsuitable with consumption. It made retranslate Machado de Assis. Its first Best-seller is the Bastard one of Palermo of Luigi Natoli. In 1982, it publishes contemporary Portuguese authors like Antonio Lobo Antunes and Lídia Jorge. The director known as of them: “ Antonio Lobo Antunes and Lídia Jorge evoked the decolonization like me, which am Pied-noir, I would have liked that the French literature does it. And then I had also intuitions. I thought that the which gallops urbanization of the Latin America was going to produce new authors”.

The novel of the Chile in Shine Sepulveda the old man who read love stories is published and meets success. The catalog also packs with the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Alasdair Gray or Arnaldur Indriðason.

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