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Based on a verbal interaction between at least two speakers, the interview frequently involves an encounter between different fields of discourse. From this perspective, the interview appears to be the place where the interlocutors are required to position themselves in order to deal with the discursive heterogeneity produced by this kind of dialogue. For interviewers like Madeleine Chapsal, Jacques Chancel, and Bernard Pivot, respectively working in written press, radio and on television, the negotiation of the interaction between journalistic and literary discourse is an important issue. This article aims to analyze positioning strategies of those interviewers as they are confronted with discourse on literature.