Leonid Moiseevich Girshovich (b. August 31 [1] 1948 , Leningrad ) - Russian writer.
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Biography
Leonid Girshovich was born in 1948. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in violin, worked in the symphony orchestras of Leningrad, Jerusalem , Hanover and Nuremberg .
In 1973 he emigrated to Israel , in 1974 - 1975 he served in the Israeli army . Since 1979 he lives in Germany, in Hanover (since 1980 ), until 2016 he worked in the orchestra of the Hanover Opera. Currently lives in Berlin.
Married, has a son and daughter [1] .
Creativity
He made his debut as a prose writer in 1976 with three short stories in the Shamir almanac, and published a book of prose: An Inverted Bouquet (Jerusalem: Shamir, 1978).
In the West, it was published in the magazines Time and We , 22, Continent, Syntax, Echo, Sagittarius, Solar Plexus, Foreign Notes, Notes on Jewish History [2] , “Jewish Old Man”, “Seven Arts” [3] , “Workshop”, the newspapers “Russian Thought”, “Windows”, “ Our Country ”.
In Russia, prose books were published:
- Exchanged heads: Roman (St. Petersburg: Bibliopolis, 1992); the same (M .: Text , 1995, 1998, 2011);
- Sorcerers with violins: Novels, essays (St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbakh Publishing House , 1997);
- Price: Roman (St. Petersburg: Ivan Limbach Publishing House, 1998) The short list of the Booker Prize 1999, in 2004 was published in French;
- The closed worlds of Dr. Price: Tales (M .: UFO, 2001);
- Saturday forever: Roman (St. Petersburg: Blank sheet, Retro, 2001);
- “Viy”, Schubert’s vocal cycle to Gogol’s words: Roman (M .: Text , 2005);
- Fascism and vice versa: A Tale (M .: UFO, 2006);
- Schautbenaht (Moscow: Text , 2008).
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Russian writers in Germany. Directory. Edited by E. Tikhomirova Archived January 2, 2005 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Leonid Girshovich | NOTES ON JEWISH HISTORY (rus.) (Neopr.) ? . z.berkovich-zametki.com. Date of appeal September 30, 2018.
- ↑ Leonid Girshovich | SEVEN ARTS (rus.) (Neopr.) ? . 7i.7iskusstv.com. Date of appeal September 30, 2018.