The cover of this 1966 compilation by New English Library replicates the style of many Olympia Press publications.

Olympia Press was a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view Year 1953 ( MCMLIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Maurice Girodias ( 12 April 1919 - 3 July 1990) was the founder of the The Olympia Press. Obelisk Press was an English language press based in Paris France, which was founded by Jack Kahane in 1929 Jack Kahane (1887-1939 was a Manchester -born Writer and Publisher who founded the Obelisk Press in Paris in 1929 It published a mix of erotic novels and avant-garde literary works, and is best known for the first print of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts which sexually arouse the reader whether written with that intention or not Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard Literary fiction is a term that has come into common usage since around 1970 principally to distinguish serious fiction (that is work with claims to Literary merit This page is about the novelist For his father the politician see Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov. Lolita (1955 is a Novel by Vladimir Nabokov, first written in English and published in 1955 in Paris, later translated by the author

Most, if not all, Olympia Press publications were promoted and packaged as "Traveller's Companion" books, usually with simple text-only covers, and each book in the series was numbered. The Traveller's Companion series contains most of the books published by Olympia Press.

Olympia Press was also the first publisher willing to print the controversial William S. Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. William Seward Burroughs II ( – ˈbʌroʊz was an American Novelist, Essayist, Social critic, painter and Spoken word Naked Lunch (sometimes referred to as The Naked Lunch) is a novel by William S Other notable works included J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man; the French trilogy Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett; A Tale of Satisfied Desire by Georges Bataille ; Story of O by Pauline Réage; and a critical book on Scientology, Inside Scientology/Dianetics by Robert Kaufman. James Patrick Donleavy (born April 23, 1926) is an Irish American Author, born in New York City to Irish immigrants The Ginger Man is a 1955 novel by J P Donleavy. First published in Paris, the novel is set in Ireland just after World War II French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people The Unnamable is a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It is the third and final entry in Beckett's "Trilogy" of novels which begins with Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989 was an Irish Writer, Dramatist and poet Georges Bataille (ʒɔʀʒ baˈtaj ( September 10, 1897 &ndash July 8, 1962) was a French Writer. Story of O (Histoire d'O is an Erotic novel published in 1954 about Dominance/submissiveness (D/s by French author Anne Desclos Anne Desclos ( September 23, 1907 - April 27, 1998) was a French journalist and novelist who wrote under the Pseudonyms Scientology is a body of beliefs and related practices initially created by American Science fiction author L Inside Scientology How I Joined Scientology and Became Superhuman is a Non-fiction book that takes a critical look at the Church of Scientology. The South African poet Sinclair Beiles was an editor at the publisher. Sinclair Beiles (b Kampala Uganda 1930 d 2002 Johannesburg - was a South African beat poet (see Beat generation) and editor for Maurice Girodias at the

Girodias had troubled dealings with his authors including copyright issues; Nabokov was not satisfied with the publisher and its reputation, and another long-running dispute over the rights to The Ginger Man ended with Donleavy's then-wife Mary buying out Girodias at what was intended to be a closed auction. Girodias briefly reestablished Olympia Press in the U.S. in the 1960s. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969

Grove Press in the U. S. would later print The Olympia Reader, a best-selling anthology containing material from some of Olympia's most popular works, including material by Burroughs, Miller, Trocchi and others. Another well-known collection was The Best of Olympia, first published by the Olympia Press in 1963 and reprinted by New English Library in 1966. The New English Library is a United Kingdom Book publishing company which became an imprint of Hodder Headline. Year 1966 ( MCMLXVI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the 1966 Gregorian calendar.

An unrelated modern publisher of erotic books, based in the Isle of Wight, trades as Olympia Press Ltd. The Isle of Wight is an English Island and county in the English Channel between three and five miles (8 km from the south coast of the Other incarnations of the company, some with Girodias' support, emerged in Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Supporter of New York intelligentsia

During the 60s (and perhaps later) many starving artists and intellectuals wrote erotic work under various pseudonyms. For instance, Tor Kung, Ann Fettamin, and Frank Newman were all prominent in the New York arts scene.

References

• Lust in the dust jackets: The Olympia Press and the Golden Age of Erotica - retrieved 02:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)