Jean-Claude Izzo was born in Marseilles, France in 1945. Best known
for the Marseilles trilogy (Total Chaos, Chourmo, Solea), Izzo is
also the author of The Lost Sailors, A Sun for the Dying, and one
collection of short stories, Living Tires. Izzo is widely credited
with being the founder of the modern Mediterranean noir novel. He
died in 2000 at the age of fifty-five.
For Europa Editions, Howard Curtis has translated five novels by
Jean-Claude Izzo, including all three books in his Marseilles
trilogy, as well as works by Francisco Coloane, Luis Sepúlveda,
Caryl Férey, Daniel Arsand, Santiago Gamboa, and Carole Martinez.
"Izzo's Marseilles is ravishing. Every street, café and house has its own character."--Toronto Globe and Mail "Mr. Izzo was a marvelous food writer . . . His books are filled with winning descriptions of Provencal meals run through with the flavors of north Africa, Italy, Greece."--SAM SIFTON, The New York Times "In Izzo's books . . . Marseilles is a 'ville selon nos coeur, ' a city in tune with our heart . . . A cosmopolitan, maritime city, greedy, sensual and warm."--MICHEL SAMSON, Slow Food "Our last true romantic, Jean-Claude Izzo transmits warmth to his readers, as if granting them a mouthful of pure love."--Le Point
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