Grigory Kanovich

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Grigori Kanowitsch ( Russian Григорий Канович ; Lithuanian Grigorijus Kanovičius ), actually Jakov Semenovich (born June 18, 1929 in Jonava ) is a Lithuanian writer , playwright, translator, screenwriter and film director. He writes in Russian and Lithuanian, and in his Russian prose works he mainly describes the life of Lithuanian Jews.

Life

Grigorijus Kanovičius was born Jakow Semenowitsch in the Lithuanian city of Jonava near Kaunas , according to another source in Kaunas itself, as the son of a religious Jewish tailor. In 1941 he emigrated to the east and lived and learned in Kazakhstan and the Urals . In 1945 he came back to Lithuania and lived in Vilnius . In 1948 he made his debut as a poet . In 1953 he completed a degree in Russian language and literature at Vilnius University . He worked at the institute of the Lietuvos moksl Institut akademija and at Lietuvos kino studija .

Kanovičius was a member of the Sąjūdis Council and headed the Jewish communities in Lithuania from 1988 to 1993 . In 1993 he emigrated to Israel . From 1995 to 1999 he was the Israeli correspondent for "Novoje ruskoje slovo", the largest Russian newspaper in the USA .

Works

The German translation has been published:

  • Candles in the wind. Novel. Translated from Russian by Waltraud Ahrndt. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984.
  • Tears and prayers of the simple. Historical novel. Translated from Russian by Waltraud Ahrndt. People and World, Berlin 1985.
  • A kid for two pennies. Novel. Translated from Russian by Waltraud Ahrndt. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-351-02203-4 .
  • Kaddish for my shtetl. Autobiographical novel. Translated from Russian by Ganna-Maria Braungardt. Construction Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-03610-2 .
  • The joys of the devil. Novel. Translated from Russian by Franziska Zwerg. Corso Verlagshaus Römerweg, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-7374-0736-6 .

Awards

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kanovich, Grigory . In: Michael Berenbaum, Fred Skolnik (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Judaica . 2nd Edition. tape 11 . Macmillan Reference USA, Detroit 2007, ISBN 978-0-02-865939-8 , pp. 766 ( online: Gale Virtual Reference Library ).
  2. ↑ Jonavoje G. Kanovičiui suteiktas Garbe piliečio vardas. ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lrytas.lt

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personal data
SURNAME Kanowitsch, Grigori
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanovičius, Grigorijus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian Lithuanian and writer, playwright, translator, scriptwriter and cinema director
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Jonava