Maurice Girodias was the most daring avant-garde publisher in English of the post-war era. His Paris-based Olympia Press took on Samuel Beckett at a time when no British publisher wanted him, Vladimir Nabokov when Lolita was considered unprintable, William Burroughs when The Naked Lunch was regarded as obscenely incomprehensible, The Ginger Man by J.P. Donleavy,
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Allegedly, Brendan Behan's last words were “Sister, may all your sons be bishops.” Apocryphal or not, that story, unjustly, sums up the life of the writer. Irish writer Brendan Behan was born in Dublin on February 9, 1923 - here, a look at his life.
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