Emile Capouya
Emile Capouya (born August 13, 1925 in Manhattan , New York , † October 13, 2005 in East Meredith , NY ) was an American essayist , critic , publicist and author .
Life
Capouya studied at Columbia University in New York and began his career with " New Directions " in New York. From 1969 to 1981 he was the editor of The Nation and also published articles and reports in The New American Review , The New York Times and The Saturday Review . Emile Capouya published such well-known authors as Ezra Pound , Tennessee Williams , Jean-Paul Sartre and James Joyce .
It was not until 1993 that he published his first series of stories, "In the Sparrow Hills", an autobiographical novel with memories of his service in the merchant navy during World War II . The story won the Sue Kaufman Prize of the American Academy and the Institute of Arts and Letters . In 2003 he published his novella "The Rising of the Moon".
In 1968 he married his second wife, Keitha Capouya , a writer for literary fiction. Keitha was the founder of "New Amsterdam Books".
literature
- Emile Capouya: "In the Sparrow Hills" , Algonquin Books 1993, ISBN 0-945575-62-9
- Ismail Kadare, Emile Capouya: "Albanian Spring: The Anatomy of Tyranny" , Saqi Books 1994, ISBN 0-86356-253-1
- Emile Capouya, Keitha Capouya: "Classic English Love Poems" , Hippocrene Books 1999, ISBN 0-7818-0572-4
- Emile Capouya: "The Rising of the Moon" , Lyons Press 2003, ISBN 1-58574-664-9
Web links
- Obituary for Emile Capouya, at www.nytimes.com (English); accessed on October 5, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emile Capouya in the US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 5, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Capouya, Emile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American essayist, critic, and publicist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Manhattan , New York |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 2005 |
| Place of death | East Meredith , NY |