Françoise Nyssen nieuwe minister van cultuur in Frankrijk
French artists have high hopes for France’s new culture minister Françoise Nyssen in the government of the centre-right prime minister Edouard Philippe appointed by the president Emmanuel Macron. Nyssen, 65, enters politics after a 30-year career with the prestigious Actes Sud publishing house, founded by her father, in Arles in the south of France. In 2008 she was made a Commander in the order of Arts and Letters, France’s highest cultural honour.
Actes Sud is known for a Nobel Prize-winning novel by Svetlana Alexievich, books on numerous artists, including Sophie Calle, Giuseppe Penone and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and catalogues on the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival, besides books on theatre, architecture and music.
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