"Delacorta" is the pen-name of Daniel Odier, a Swiss novelist and screenwriter. Born in Geneva in 1945, he studied painting in Rome, received his university degree in Paris, and worked as a music critic for a leading Swiss newpaper before taking off for a tour of Asia, which culminated in a book on Taoism. In 1969, his first book, The Job : Interviews with William Burroughs, was published in the United States; since then he has published ... novels in France under his real name. ... He and his wife, Nell Gotkovsky, live in California.... [from Nana, Ballantine (1984)]
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