Maurice Girodias
Maurice Girodias | |
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Girodias photographed by Gilles Larrain | |
| Born | Maurice Kahane 12 April 1919 Paris, France |
| Died | 3 July 1990 (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. 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.