Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes

The Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR, literally "Polytechnic and university press of French-speaking Switzerland") is a Swiss academic publishing house.

Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes
Founded1980 (1980)[1]
Country of originSwitzerland
Headquarters locationLausanne
Key peopleJacques Neirynck
Fiction genresAcademic
ImprintsEPFL Press
Collection Le savoir suisse
Official websitewww.ppur.org

It is based in Lausanne, on the Lausanne campus, in the Rolex Learning Center.[2]

The Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes has an English-language imprint called EPFL Press.

Publications

The Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes publish « Le savoir suisse » (literally "The Swiss knowledge"). This series was created in 2002 in collaboration with Bertil Galland.[3] Between 2002 and 2012, it edited 88 books and sold 150'000 copies (in French).[4] 28 of these books were translated, mainly in German.[4]

Notes and references
  1. (in French) La maison d'édition (page visited on 11 October 2013).
  2. http://www.ppur.org (page visited on 11 October 2013).
  3. "Bertil Galland". Wikipédia (in French). 2017-07-20.
  4. Nicolas Dufour, "La collection « Le Savoir suisse » vise d'autres terres", Le Temps, Thursday 1 November 2012.
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