Éric Hazan
French author and editor (1936–2024)
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Éric Hazan (23 July 1936 – 6 June 2024) was a French author and editor.[1] He was the founder of La Fabrique.
Editor
Surgeon
Éric Hazan | |
|---|---|
Hazan in 2013 | |
| Born | 23 July 1936 |
| Died | 6 June 2024 (aged 87) Paris, France |
| Education | Lycée Louis-le-Grand |
| Occupations | Author Editor Surgeon |
Biography
Born in Paris on 23 July 1936,[2] Hazan's mother was a Romanian Jew originally from Palestine,[3] while his father, Fernand Hazan, was a Jew originally from Egypt and the brother of editor and librarian Émile Hazan.[4] During World War II, his family took refuge in Marseille. After the war, his father founded the publishing house Éditions Hazan. Hazan attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and joined communist activists,[5] as well as the National Liberation Front during the Algerian War.[6] He became a cardiovascular surgeon and campaigned for abortion rights in France.[5] In 1975, as a founder of the Association France-Palestine Solidarité, he travelled to Lebanon during the civil war to work as a combat doctor.[6] He was a member of the Russel Tribunal on Palestine, which began work on 4 March 2009.[7]
In 1983, Hazan gave up surgery and became director of the family publishing business, Éditions Hazan.[5] However, he left management after the publisher was acquired by Groupe Hachette. In 1998, he founded the publishing house La Fabrique ("The Factory"), where the works published were primarily left-wing and historical or philosophical.[8] He allegedly only published works by his friends according to Libération, which included the authors Norman Finkelstein and Houria Bouteldja.[9] The Coming Insurrection, published, written by The Invisible Committee and published by La Fabrique was denounced by Minister of the Interior Michèle Alliot-Marie and led to Hazan's testimony in the Tarnac affair.[5] He also wrote and translated more than twenty works, including those of Edward Said.
Éric Hazan died in Paris on 6 June 2024, aged 87.[10] Jacques Rancière wrote a tribute to him in Liberation, published in English in the New Left Review.[11]
Publications
Books
- L'Invention de Paris, il n'y a pas de pas perdus (2002)
- Chronique de la guerre civile (2004)
- Faire mouvement (2005)
- LQR : la propagande du quotidien (2006)[12]
- Notes sur l’occupation : Naplouse, Kalkilyia, Hébron (2006)
- Changement de propriétaire, la guerre civile continue (2007)
- L'Antisémitisme partout. Aujourd'hui en France (2011)
- Paris sous tension (2011)
- Vues de Paris 1750-1850 (2011)
- Un État commun. Entre le Jourdain et la mer (2012)
- Une histoire de la Révolution française (2012)[13]
- Reflections on Anti-Semitism (2013)
- Premières mesures révolutionnaires (2013)
- La Barricade : Histoire d'un objet révolutionnaire (2013)
- La Dynamique de la révolte. Sur des insurrections passées et d'autres à venir (2015)
- Une traversée de Paris (2016)
- Pour aboutir à un livre. La fabrique d’une maison d’édition (2016)
- À travers les lignes. Textes politiques (2017)
- Balzac (2018)
- Police (2020)
- Le Tumulte de Paris (2021)[14]
Translations
- Bush à Babylone : la recolonisation de l'Irak (Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq) by Tariq Ali (2004)
- Le Contrôle de la parole. L'édition sans éditeur by André Schiffrin (2005)
- L'Héritage de Sharon : détruire la Palestine, suite by Tanya Reinhart (2006)
- L'Argent et les Mots (Words and Money) by André Schiffrin (2010)
- La Commune de Shanghai et la Commune de Paris by Hongsheng Jiang (2014)