The Publication Assistance Programmes

Members of French diplomatic network

The Publication Assistance Programmes support the work of foreign publishers wishing to include in their catalogue, either in a translated version or in an original version of the texts of French-speaking authors, initially published in France on behalf of the publisher.

Applications are closed

Terms and conditions

Beneficiaries

Foreign publishers Interested foreign publishers are invited to contact the person in charge of books at their local Institut français and/or the cultural department of the French Embassy, who will support them in their requests for funding. Groups of publishers wishing to publish locally in French are invited to contact the Institut français.

Publication Assistance Programmes support the programming of Institut français around the world and their local partners, complementing the local Translation Assistance Programs managed by the Book Offices.

Since 1990, all these programmes, which strengthen the influence of French literature and thought across the world, have contributed to the translation of nearly 20,000 titles by French authors’ in 80 countries.