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. 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) References 1914 births 1985 deaths Prix Femina winners 20th-century French novelists 20th-century French poets French male poets French male novelists 20th-century French male writers