Patrick Mauriès
Born with Nice in 1952, former student of the National university of Paris, Patrick Mauriès is a writer French, editor, Critique arts person and Collectionneur. It published nearly forty works to the editions Plon, Gallimard, Thames & Hudson and the Walker.
Biography
Journalist and editor
Journalist for the literary pages of Release after having made its beginnings of writer with the editions of the Threshold with a work noticed by Roland Barthes, Patrick Mauriès founded itself his own review, the Walker , in 1981, in the spirit of the Gazette S arts persons of the 18th century. With the Italian editor Free Maria Ricci, it took part in the creation of the prestigious review FMR . Lastly, it directed the French subsidiary company of the editions Thames & Hudson.In 1988, the Walker becomes a publisher to whole share, initially within the group Quai Voltaire, then, starting from 1991, inside the group Gallimard.
Collector of books and esthète, objets d'art, specialist in the cultures Anglo-Saxon and Italian, Patrick Mauriès published or republished authors of the Bloomsbury Group and writers such as Piero Camporesi, Giovanni Macchia, Federico Zeri… Among the French authors, its leading choices go on Marcel Schwob, Louise de Vilmorin, Mario Praz, Jean Cocteau…
Essay writer and novelist
Joint author of several books with Christian Lacroix or Jean-Paul Goude, it wrote nearly forty works, of which Cabinets of curiosities , Prix Andre-Malraux in 2002.