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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 67,205 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. José Giovanni is the 2,823rd most popular writer (up from 3,204th in 2019), the 2,980th most popular biography from France (up from 3,102nd in 2019) and the 368th most popular French Writer.

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  • 67k

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  • 52.18

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, José Giovanni ranks 2,823 out of 5,755Before him are Ouida, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Andre Norton, Lucia Berlin, and José Martínez Ruiz. After him are Prince Henri of Orléans, José María Arguedas, Edwin Arnold, S. N. Goenka, Katherine Jackson, and Abraham Sutzkever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, José Giovanni ranks 170Before him are Evelyn McHale, Ziba Ganiyeva, Lydia Clarke, Gerard Reve, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, and Jozef Lenárt. After him are Ann Miller, Václav Ježek, René Favaloro, Linda Darnell, Constantin Dăscălescu, and Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs. Among people deceased in 2004, José Giovanni ranks 115Before him are Thomas Gold, John Maynard Smith, Ryszard Kukliński, Hubert Selby Jr., Jozef Lenárt, and Lucia Berlin. After him are Ann Miller, Jesús Gil, Werner Goldberg, Takeshi Kamo, Philip Arthur Fisher, and Franz König.

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In France

Among people born in France, José Giovanni ranks 2,980 out of 6,011Before him are Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744), Joseph Vendryes (1875), Francis Ponge (1899), Claude Gillot (1673), Léon Brunschvicg (1869), and Jean-Luc Ponty (1942). After him are Peter Chanel (1803), Michel Blavet (1700), Didier Auriol (1958), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), Nicolas de Grigny (1672), and Camille Guérin (1872).

Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, José Giovanni ranks 368Before him are Suzanne Curchod (1737), Guiraut Riquier (1230), Jean-François de La Harpe (1739), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Lupus Servatus (805), and Francis Ponge (1899). After him are Valery Larbaud (1881), Charles-Louis Philippe (1874), Jacques Delille (1738), Claude Farrère (1876), Hervé Bazin (1911), and Édouard Chavannes (1865).