WRITER

José Giovanni

1923 - 2004

José Giovanni

José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film Classe tous risques, overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Giovanni has received more than 75,203 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). José Giovanni is the 3,196th most popular writer (down from 2,812th in 2019), the 3,318th most popular biography from France (down from 2,970th in 2019) and the 415th most popular French Writer.

Memorability Metrics

75k
Page Views (PV)
52.39
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
18
Languages Editions (L)
3.54
Effective Languages (L*)
2.75
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Les loups entre eux

1982

Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces

Readers (Secondary), English literature, American literature

9-10th grade

1991

Baltasar and Blimunda

English fiction, Translations from Portuguese, Fiction, historical

1988

Le trou

Escapes, Paris, Paris. Maison d'arrêt de la Santé

1957

Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era

Globalization, Economic development, Government policy

2014

Antología de la literatura fantástica

Fantasy literature, Fantastic literature, Anachronisms

Contains: Sennin / Ryūnosuke Akutagawa -- A woman alone with her soul / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Ben-Tobith / Leonid Andreyev -- Phantom basket / John Aubrey -- Drowned giant / J.G. Ballard -- Enoch Soames / Max Beerbohm -- Tail of the sphinx / Ambrose Bierce -- Squid in its own ink / Adolfo Bioy Casares -- Guilty eyes / Ah'med Ech Chiruani -- Anything you want! ... / Léon Bloy -- [Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL444914W) / Jorge Luis Borges -- Odin / Jorge Luis Borges & Delia Ingenieros -- Golden kite, the silver wind / Ray Bradbury -- Man who collected the first of September, 1973 / Tor Åge Bringsvaerd -- Careless rabbi / Martin Buber -- Tale of the poet / Sir Richard Burton -- Fate is a fool / Arturo Cancela and Pilar de Lusarreta -- An actual authentic ghost / Thomas Carlyle -- Red king's dream / Lewis Carroll -- Tree of pride / G.K. Chesterton -- Tower of Babel / G.K. Chesterton -- Man who knew too much / Cassell -- Dream of the Butterfly / Chuang Tzu -- Llook of death / Jean Cocteau -- House taken over / Julio Cortázar -- Being dust / Santiago Dabove -- A parable of gluttony / Alexandra David-Neel -- Persecution of the master / Alexandra David-Neel -- Idle city / Lord Dunsany -- Tantalia / Macedonio Fernández -- Eternal Life / J.G. Frazer -- A secure home / Elena Garro -- Man who did not believe in miracles / Herbert A. Giles -- Earth's holocaust / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Ending for a ghost story / I.A. Ireland -- Monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- What Is a ghost? / James Joyce -- May Goulding / James Joyce -- Wizard passed over / Don Juan Manuel -- Josephine the singer, or the mouse folk / Franz Kafka -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Return of imray / Rudyard Kipling -- Horses of Abdera / Leopoldo Lugones -- Ceremony / Arthur Machen -- Riddle / Walter de la Mare -- Who knows? / Guy de Maupassant -- Shadow of the players / Edwin Morgan -- Cat / H.A. Murena -- Story of the foxes / Niu Chiao.

1940