Rafael Grugman
Rafael Abramovich Grugman is a Russian and Ukrainian writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator.
Biography
Rafael Grugman was born in Odesa, Ukraine, USSR and graduated from Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI) in Russia.During student years he worked as a journalist for several Novosibirsk newspapers. In 1971 he returned to Odesa 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 Odesa, and conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures. He was the first editor of the Jewish newspaper Ha-Meletz, published in Odesa 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. The dystopian novel Nontraditional Love was published by Liberty Publishing House in November 2008 and nominated for the 2009 Rossica Translation Prize.
Rafael Grugman the author of the petition to Congress and US President Donald Trump: Romania escaped a trial for the Holocaust. Initiate a case The US versus Fascist Romania, January 3, 2018
Fiction book published in USA (translated from Russian)
Nontraditional Love — New York: Liberty Publishing House, 2008 The Twenty Third Century: Nontraditional Love, — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2017Napoleon's Great-Great-Grandson Speaks — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2017The Messiah Who Might Have Been. I Was Churchill's Mistress — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2018Fiction books
- Bride of the Sea — Ukraine, Odesa: Title, 1994Borya, get out from the sea — Ukraine, Odesa: Southwest, 1995Nuzhna mne vasha farshirovannaya ryba — Ukraine, Odesa: Printing House, 2004Borya, get out from the sea – 2. Odesa Tales — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2019 — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2020Testament of Mazepa, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, revealed in Odesa to the great-great-grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte — М.: Родина, 2021. — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2021
Nonfiction books
- Vladimir Jabotinsky, the indomitable Samson — Israel, Isradon, 2010 Soviet square: Stalin-Khrushchev-Beria-Gorbachev — Russia, Piter, 2011 Svetlana Alliluyeva. The five lives — Russia, Phoenix, 2012 Jabotinsky and Ben-Gurion: The Right and Left Poles of Israel — Russia, Phoenix, 2014 The Death of Stalin: All the Versions - And One More — Russia, Moscow, Eksmo, Algorithm, 2016 Svetlana Alliluyeva to Pasternak. "I've crossed my Rubicon" — Russia, Moscow, Algorithm, 2018 The Death of Stalin. All the Versions And One More — Russia, Moscow, Eksmo, Rodina, 2021