Louis Calaferte, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis Calaferte

French writer

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1928

Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Date of Death: 02-May-1994

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, diarist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Louis Calaferte (French pronunciation: [lwi kalaf?rt] ; 14 July 1928 - 2 May 1994) was a French 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 genuine excitement in the most blase connoisseur”.
This writing style resulted in a variety of literary prizes, including the Prix de l’Academie Française for Ebauche d’un autoportrait in 1983; for a collection of poems, Londoniennes in 1985; and for a collection of short stories, Promenades dans un parc in 1987.
Calaferte died in Dijon, France on 2 May 1994.