Maurice Girodias
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 35 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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| 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.