Rafael Grugman
Russian writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator
Rafael Abramovich Grugman (Russian: Рафаэль Абрамович Гругман; born 16 October 1948) 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 (now Novosibirsk State Technical University, NSTU).
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 (Russian: Ха-Мелиц), 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 (London, 2009).
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