Lev Raphael
Lev Raphael (born 1954 in New York ) is an American writer of Jewish origin and the son of Holocaust survivors .
Life
Raphael's mother was Polish and his father was Czech . He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a Masters Degree in English and Creative Writing and earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from Michigan State University . He taught at colleges in New York , Massachusetts, and Michigan for 13 years , and since 1988 has devoted himself exclusively to writing.
He writes short stories, crime novels, novels, memoirs and book reviews, for example in the Washington Post , writes reviews on the Internet and makes radio broadcasts. He is one of the first American writers to address the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation, the children of survivors, in his novels.
To date, he has written a total of 24 books that have been translated into around a dozen languages. Winter Eyes and The German money takes Holocaust survivors into view. He contributed to three international Holocaust conferences. He has read in North America, Israel and France, England, Scotland, Austria and Germany, most recently in 2010 and 2011. He also reads in German.
Awards
- Harvey Swados Fiction Prize
- Reed Smith Fiction Prize
- Prize for Innovative Prose from International Quarterly
- 1991: Lambda Literary Award for Dancing On Tisha B'av
Works in German translation
- Yiddishness or Your Own Life. Novel. Parthas, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86601-652-1 .
- Winter eyes. Novel. Translated by Paul Lukas. Parthas, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86601-651-4 .
- The German money. Novel. Translated by Paul Lukas. Parthas, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86601-650-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Lev Raphael, spiegel.de, October 15, 2010 , accessed on November 8, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raphael, Lev |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York |