# Maurice Girodias

> 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. Girodias published Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, J. P. Donleavy’s The Ginger Man, and works by Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Iris Owens, John Glassco and Christopher Logue.

*Book publisher (1919-1990)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/maurice-girodias

## Identity
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1919-04-12
- **Died:** 1990-07-03
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 44.1 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 6.4 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 45.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

## Platforms
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9330411/ (@nm9330411)

## Sources
- [Моріс Жиродья](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%96%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8C%D1%8F)
- [موريس جيرودياس](https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3)
- [Maurice Girodias](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Girodias)
- [Maurice Girodias](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Girodias)
- [Maurice Girodias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Girodias)
- [Maurice Girodias](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Girodias)
- [모리스 기로디어스](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AA%A8%EB%A6%AC%EC%8A%A4_%EA%B8%B0%EB%A1%9C%EB%94%94%EC%96%B4%EC%8A%A4)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1911330)

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