WRITER

José Giovanni

1923 - 2004

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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 73,189 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.

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  • 73k

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  • 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
Prentice Hall Literature--World Masterpieces
Readers (Secondary), English literature, American literature
9-10th grade
Baltasar and Blimunda
English fiction, Translations from Portuguese, Fiction, historical
Le trou
Escapes, Paris, Paris. Maison d'arrêt de la Santé
Alternative Development Strategies for the Post-2015 Era
Globalization, Economic development, Government policy
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.

Among WRITERS

Among writers, José Giovanni ranks 3,196 out of 7,302Before him are Naoya Shiga, Stefanie Zweig, Sigurd Hoel, Tiziano Terzani, C. S. Forester, and Anne Tyler. After him are Jiří Dienstbier, Mihály Babits, Ruben Sevak, Caspar Barlaeus, Giovanni Battista Giraldi, and Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, José Giovanni ranks 191Before him are Octavio Lepage, Václav Ježek, Sam Francis, Simeon ten Holt, Norberto Méndez, and Valentin Varennikov. After him are Jean-Paul Riopelle, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Savka Dabčević-Kučar, Milt Jackson, Zeffiro Furiassi, and Richard Herrmann. Among people deceased in 2004, José Giovanni ranks 136Before him are Jozef Lenárt, Maxime Rodinson, Orvar Bergmark, James Quinn, Ota Šik, and Tiziano Terzani. After him are Cem Karaca, Hubert Selby Jr., Juan Zambudio Velasco, Piero Piccioni, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, and Kalevi Sorsa.

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In France

Among people born in France, José Giovanni ranks 3,318 out of 6,770Before him are Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Prince Dimitri Romanov (1926), Louis Majorelle (1859), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Michel Barnier (1951), and André Gobert (1890). After him are Michel Deville (1931), Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825), Roger de La Fresnaye (1885), Sébastien Faure (1858), Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755), and Bernard Picart (1673).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, José Giovanni ranks 415Before him are Étienne Jodelle (1532), René Daumal (1908), Tristan Bernard (1866), Daniel-Rops (1901), Casimir Delavigne (1793), and Antoine de la Sale (1388). After him are Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755), Jean Joseph Marie Amiot (1718), Claudius Salmasius (1588), Jules Barbier (1825), Frédéric Beigbeder (1965), and Jules Vallès (1832).