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Maurice Girodias
French publisher (1919–1990)
Maurice Girodias | |
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Girodias photographed by Gilles Larrain | |
| Born | Maurice Kahane[1] (1919-04-12)12 April 1919 Paris, France |
| Died | 3 July 1990(1990-07-03) (aged 71) Paris, France |
| Occupation | Book publisher |
| Parent | Jack Kahane (1887–1939) |
Maurice Girodias (12 April 1919 – 3 July 1990) 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.
Maurice girodias autobiography for kids
It evolved from his father’s Obelisk Press, famous for publishing Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer. Girodias published Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, J. P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man (involving a 20-year lawsuit), and works by Samuel Beckett, William S.
Burroughs, Iris Owens, John Glassco and Christopher Logue.
Early life
Girodias was born Maurice Kahane in Paris, France, the son of Manchester-born Jack Kahane an