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Louis Calaferte

Louis Calaferte
  • Name: Louis Calaferte
  • Birthday: 1928-07-14
  • Place of birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
  • Popularity: 0.535
Biography: Louis Calaferte (14 July 1928 - 2 May 1994) was an Italian-born French naturalized novelist. He was born in Turin, Italy, but emigrated to France with his parents when he was very young, settling in a Lyon suburb where he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence. In 1947, he set out for Paris to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, where he found a love for writing instead. Over the span of his career, he published a variety of works, including “a fantastic profusion of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poems and erotica of a particularly distinguished vulgarity that created genuine excitement in the most blase connoisseur”. This writing style resulted in a variety of... Read More

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Lire   as  Self 1986-12-07