Jean-Claude Izzo

Jean-Claude Izzo (1945–2000) was born in Marseille and died there. He worked as a journalist for many years and published several volumes of poetry before publishing his first novel, Total Cheops, at the age of fifty. The book became a bestseller. His Marseille Trilogy is regarded as a major work of international crime fiction. The second volume, Chourmo, received the German Crime Prize in 2001.