José Giovanni

Writing

Birthday

1923/06/22

Day of death

2004/04/24 (80 years old)

Gender

Male

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Also know as

Jose Giovanni, Joseph Damiani

Biography

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