Jacques Layani est né en 1952. Il a publié quatre recueils de nouvelles, des poèmes, de nombreux essais, trois pièces de théâtre et trois livres de cinéma (Claude Sautet, Jacques Demy et le seul livre consacré à Pierre Granier-Deferre). Sa pièce Dix femmes a été jouée en France, en Belgique et au Québec. Il est le commentateur des écrivains Madeleine Bourdouxhe, Paul Guimard, Maurice Pons, Roger Vailland ; des romanciers populaires André Caroff, Boileau-Narcejac, Jean-Claude Izzo ; le biographe d'Albertine Sarrazin et celui de Gabrielle Russier ; le premier exégète français du romancier anglais Ian Fleming. Il participe aux Cahiers d'études Léo Ferré et à la revue Les Copains d'la neuille, également dévolue à l'artiste, à qui il a consacré cinq ouvrages (dont un en collaboration). Il a travaillé dans l'administration universitaire et au ministère de la Culture (dans le domaine des arts plastiques). Il est chevalier des palmes académiques. Il a aussi exercé des fonctions de libraire, documentaliste, bibliothécaire, revuiste, archiviste. Il raconte les souvenirs correspondants, agrémentés de réflexions, dans trois volumes (Avec le livre, Rien n'existe qui ne soit un livre et Chronique de quelques librairies marseillaises).
Léo Ferré-La Mémoire et le temps, essai, Paris, Seghers, 1987. Cabaret baroque, poèmes (avec des encres originales de Jacques Barthélémy), Solignac, Le Bruit des autres, 1994. Léo Ferré- Une mémoire graphique, essai (en collaboration), Périgueux, La Lauze, 2000. Dix femmes, théâtre, Martel, éditions du Laquet, 2001. Albertine Sarrazin, une vie, biographie, Paris, Écriture, 2001. Spectacle total, nouvelles, Nantes, éditions du Petit Véhicule, 2002. Les Chemins de Léo Ferré, essai, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Christian Pirot, 2005. Les Films de Claude Sautet, essai, Biarritz, Atlantica-Séguier , 2005. Le Château d’utopie, nouvelles, Gibles, D’un noir si bleu, 2007. Ian Fleming, on ne lit que deux fois, essai, Paris, Écriture, 2008. Léo Ferré, un archipel, essai, Lormont, Le Bord de l'Eau, 2020. La Dyane rouge, vie et mort de Gabrielle Russier, Marseille, Gaussen, 2021. Léo Ferré jour après jour, une chronologie, Le Bord de l'Eau, 2022.
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