Simon Louvish
Simon Louvish | |
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| Born | April 6, 1947 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scots-born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok, a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses.
Louvish is a
visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School.[1] He has written books on W. C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West, Cecil B. DeMille, Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin.[2]
Louvish directed and produced such documentaries as End of the Dialogue, Apartheid in South Africa, Greece of Christian Greeks โ the Colonels' Regime, and To Live in Freedom, the Conflict in Israel-Palestine.[3]
Publications
- The Avram Blok Saga
- Louvish, Simon (1985). The Therapy of Avram Blok. Vol. 1. Heinemann. ISBN 0434429708.
- —— (1988). City of Blok. Vol. 2. Collins.
- —— (1991). The Last Trump of Avram Blok. Vol. 3. Flamingo. ISBN 0006543405.
- —— (1997). The Days of Miracles and Wonders. Vol. 4.
- ——. The Fundamental Blok. Vol. 5 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books.
- ——. The Chinese Smile. Vol. 6 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books.
- Fiction
- —— (1979). A Moment Of Silence. ISBN 0856161314.
- —— (1987). Death of Moishe-Ganef. Corgi. ISBN 0552992860.
- —— (1990). Your Monkey's Shmuck. Flamingo. ISBN 0006543464.
- —— (1992). Resurrections from the Dustbin of History. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747511918.
- —— (1994). Resurrections. Da Capo Press. ISBN 1568580142.
- —— (1995). What's Up God?: A Romance of the Apocalypse. W&N. ISBN 057505994X.
- —— (1997). The Silencer. Interlink Books. ISBN 1566561167.
- —— (1999). The Cosmic Follies. Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 1900300419.
- Non-fiction
- —— (1994). It's a Gift. ISBN 0851704727.
- —— (1997). The Man on the Flying Trapeze - the Life & Times of W C Fields. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0393041271.
- —— (1999). Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers.
- —— (2003). KEYSTONE The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett. Faber & Faber. ISBN 057121276X.
- —— (2002). Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571215904.
- —— (2006). Mae West: It Ain't No Sin. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571219497.
- —— (2007). Coffee With Groucho. Duncan Baird. ISBN 978-1844834693.
- —— (2007). Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571229000.
- Also published (2008) as Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
- —— (2009). Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571237685.
References
- ^ "Staff and Governors". London Film School. Archived from the original on 17 February 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2012.
- ^ Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey, By Simon Louvish. The Independent.
- ^ "Simon Louvish". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo with Added Gummo by Simon Louvish". publishersweekly.com. 1 June 2000. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
External links
- Simon Louvish at IMDb
- Simon Louvish at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- His homepage
- New York Times a review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
- Macmillan Publishers a photograph of Louvish
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