Maurice Girodias
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 34 years ago |
Date of birth | April 12,1919 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Paris |
France | |
Date of died | July 3,1990 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Parents | Jack Kahane |
Books | The Olympia reader |
The new Olympia reader | |
Le Président Kissinger | |
L' affaire Kissinger | |
The frog prince | |
Siblings | Éric Kahane |
Founded | Olympia Press |
Job | Publisher |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 1626327 |
Maurice Girodias Life story
Maurice Girodias was a French publisher who founded the Olympia Press, specialising in risqué books, censored in Britain and America, that were permitted in France in English-language versions only. It evolved from his father’s Obelisk Press, famous for publishing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.