Writing
Louis Calaferte
- Born
- Jul 14, 1928 · Aged 65
- Died
- May 2, 1994
- Place of birth
- Turin, Piedmont, Italy
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 1
- TV credits
- 1
Biography
Louis Calaferte (14 July 1928 - 2 May 1994) was an Italian-born French naturalized novelist. He was born in Turin, Italy, but emigrated to France with his parents when he was very young, settling in a Lyon suburb where he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence. In 1947, he set out for Paris to pursue his dream of becoming an actor, where he found a love for writing instead. Over the span of his career, he published a variety of works, including “a fantastic profusion of novels, short stories, essays, plays, poems and erotica of a particularly distinguished vulgarity that created…
