Richard Lourie

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Richard Eliot Lourie (born July 16, 1940 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is an American writer, translator and publicist.

Life

Origin, youth and education

The ancestors traveled from Lithuania to the United States as Jewish-Russian emigrants . In his youth he occasionally worked as a taxi driver and chauffeur . Richard Lourie first studied English Philology at Boston University , where he attended Robert Lowell's lectures in 1959 . He then traveled from Boston to Berkeley and studied Russian literature and Russian history at the University of California . It was there in 1960 that he met the Polish writer Czesław Miłosz , who also came from Lithuania and was professor at the University of Berkeley at the Department of Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures . Lourie attended his lectures and remained close friends with him for over four decades. In 1969 Richard Lourie received his doctorate ( Ph. D. ) with his doctoral thesis on Andrei Donatowitsch Sinjawski . His cousin Jim Simons was also studying in Berkeley .

Act

In 1974 he received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award for the novel Sagittarius in Warsaw . His book First Loyalty was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1986. Some of his books refer to events and personalities from the Cold War era . He translated around 20 books from Russian and Polish into American English . In 1999 the fictional autobiography of Joseph Stalin was published, and in 2002 the biography of the Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov was published . Richard Lourie's non-fiction books, historical novels, short stories and biographies have been published several times and translated into other languages. In the book aversion to tulips (Hatred for Tulips) Richard Lourie described in 2007 the position of boys Joop that the hiding place of Anne Frank told in Amsterdam, in order to procure the money for the starving family.

Richard Lourie has been a columnist for The Moscow Times magazine since 2002 . He publishes regularly in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The Nation and The New Republic . Lourie directed the Governor Mario Cuomo Project , the aim of which was to translate the writings of Abraham Lincoln into the Polish language. In 1989 he wrote the screenplay Victims of Circumstance for the television series Miami Vice .

In the summer of 2013 he traveled to Krakow and took part in the Miłosz Festival . At the same time he visited the tomb of Czesław Miłosz in the Pauline monastery on the Skałka hill .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sagittarius in Warsaw . Vanguard Press, New York 1973.
  • Letters to the future. An approach to Sinyavsky-Tertz . Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1975.
  • First loyalty . Harcourt Brace Jovanowich, San Diego 1985.
    • German translation Franziska Reiter: Traitors live longer . Paul Zsolany Verlag, Vienna 1987, ISBN 978-3-552-03908-7 .
    • German translation Wolfram Ströle: The distant love of the spies. Novel . Paul Zsolany Verlag, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-552-04106-0 .
  • Zero gravity. A novel . Harcourt Brace Jovanowich, San Diego 1987.
  • Russia Speaks. An Oral History from the Revolution to the Present. Harper Collins, New York, 1991.
  • Predicting Russia's future . Whittle Direct Books, Knoxville, Tenn. 1991.
  • Hunting the Devil. The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History . HarperCollins Publishers, New York 1993.
  • The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin. A novel . Counterpoint, Washington, DC. 1999.
    • German translation by Hans J. Becker: Stalin. The secret notes of Yossif Vissarionovich Dschugashvili. Novel . Luchterhand, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-630-87037-6 .
  • Sakharov. A biography . Brandeis University Press, New England, 2002
    • German translation Norbert Juraschitz: Sacharow. Biography . Luchterhand, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-630-88008-8 .
  • A hatred for tulips . Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2007.
  • Putin. His downfall and Russia's coming crash . Thomas Dunne Books, New York 2017.

Translations

  • Alexander Afanassjew , Uri Shulevitz (Illustrator): Soldier and Tsar in the Forest. A Russian Tale . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 1972.
  • Wladimir Nikolajewitsch Woinowitsch : The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin . Northwestern University Press, Evenston, 1975.
  • Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinowitsch: In Plain Russian. Stories . Farrar, Straus, New York 1979.
  • Czesław Miłosz: Visions from San Francisco Bay . Farrar, Straus, New York 1982.
  • Efraim Sewela : Why There Is No Heaven on Earth . Harper & Row, New York 1982.
  • Tadeusz Konwicki : The Polish Complex . Farrar, Straus, New York 1982.
  • Tadeusz Konwicki: A Minor Apocalypse . Farrar, Straus, New York 1983.
  • Albert Likhanov: Shadows across the Sun . Harper & Row, New York 1983.
  • Kazimierz Brandys : A Warsaw Diary. Nineteen Seventy-eight to Nineteen Eighty-one . Random House, New York 1984.
  • Vladimir Nikolajewitsch Voinowitsch: The Anti-Soviet Soviet Union . Harcourt, New York 1986.
  • Romuald Spasowski: The Liberation of One. The Autobiography of Romuald Spasowski, Polish Ambassador to the United States . Harcourt, New York 1986.
  • Janusz Korczak : King Matt the First . Chapel Hill, NC 1986.
  • Vladimir Nikolayevich Voinowitsch: Moscow 2042 . Harcourt, New York 1987.
  • Ewa Czarnecka, Aleksander Fiut: Conversations with Czeslaw Milosz . Harcourt Brace Jovanowich, San Diego 1987.
  • Joachim Neugroschel, Lucjan Dobroszycki: The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941–1944 . Yale University, New Haven 1987.
  • Aleksander Hertz: The Jews in Polish Culture . Northwestern University Press, Evanston 1988.
  • Aleksander Wat : My Century. The odyssey of a Polish intellectual . University of California Press, Berkeley 1988.
  • Andrzej Szczypiorski : A Mass for the Town of Arras . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1993.
  • Henryk Grynberg : The Jewish War and the Victory . Northwestern University Press, Evanston, III. 2001.

Awards

  • 1974: Joseph Henry Jackson Literary Award for Sagittarius in Warsaw
  • 1986: Nomination for the Pulitzer Prize for First Loyalty

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Eliot Lourie - writer
  2. ↑ Articles by Richard Lourie. The Moscow Times , 2014, accessed October 12, 2014 .
  3. ^ Richard Lourie (Guests). (No longer available online.) 3 rd Milosz Festival, 2013, p. 3 , archived from the original on October 16, 2014 ; accessed on October 12, 2014 (English). 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.miloszfestival.pl
  4. ↑ Richard Lourie - Writers in Motion on YouTube (English / Polish)
personal data
SURNAME Lourie, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lourie, Richard Eliot (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, translator, and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cambridge , Massachusetts