Rafael Grugman


Rafael Abramovich Grugman is a Russian writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator.

Biography

Rafael Grugman was born in Odessa, Ukraine, USSR and graduated from Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute in Russia.
During student years he worked as a journalist for several Novosibirsk newspapers. In 1971 he returned to Odessa to work as an engineer for more than twenty years, authoring and contributing to more than 50 patents and scientific articles that were published in Moscow technical magazines.
In the mid-1980s, during the years of social and political reforms in the USSR, known as the Perestroika, he again becomes a journalist, publishing his work in leading newspapers in Odessa, and conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures. He was the first editor of a Jewish newspaper "Ha-Meletz", published in Odessa after the collapse of the USSR.
He lives in the United States since 1996. He has held various positions working as a programmer, journalist and writer. Presently, he is teaching at a local college in New York.
Rafael Grugman the author of fiction and non-fiction books that were published in Russia, Ukraine, United States and Israel. In March 2009 the fiction story "The Wagner Lecture" received "Honorable Mention" in the Glimmer Train Fiction Open competition. The dystopian novel Nontraditional Love was published by Liberty Publishing House in November 2008 and nominated for the 2009 Rossica Translation Prize.

Fiction book published in USA (translated from Russian)