Editing Louis Aragon (section)

=== The publisher ===

Beside his journalistic activities, Louis Aragon was also CEO of the ''[[:fr:Éditeurs français réunis|Editeurs français réunis]]'' (EFR) publishing house, heir of two publishing houses founded by the Resistance, ''La Bibliothèque française'' and ''Hier et Aujourd'hui''. He directed the EFR along with [[Madeleine Braun]], and in the 1950s published French and Soviet writers commonly related to the "[[Socialist Realism]]" current. Among other works, the EFR published [[André Stil]]'s ''Premier choc'', which owed to the future [[Goncourt Academy|Goncourt Academician]] the [[Stalin Peace Prize|Stalin Prize]] in 1953. They also published other writers, such as [[Julius Fučík (journalist)|Julius Fučík]], [[Vítězslav Nezval]], [[Rafael Alberti]], [[Yiannis Ritsos]] and [[Vladimir Mayakovsky]]. 

At the beginning of the 1960s, the EFR brought to public knowledge the works of non-Russian Soviet writers, such as [[Chinghiz Aitmatov]], or Russian writers belonging to the [[Khrushchev Thaw]], such as [[Galina Nikolaeva]], [[Yevgeny Yevtushenko]]'s ''Babi Iar'' in 1967, etc. The EFR also published the first novel of [[Christa Wolf]] in 1964, and launched the poetic collection ''Petite sirène'', which collected works by [[Pablo Neruda]], [[Eugène Guillevic]], [[Nicolás Guillén]], but also less known poets such as [https://dominiquegrandmont.wordpress.com/ Dominique Grandmont], [[Alain Lance]] or [[Jean Ristat]].