Simon Louvish
{{Short description|Israeli writer and filmmaker}}
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Simon Louvish ({{Langx|he|סיימון לוביש}}; 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.{{cite web | url=http://www.lfs.org.uk/about/staff.php | title=Staff and Governors | publisher=London Film School | access-date=25 June 2012 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130217032453/http://www.lfs.org.uk/about/staff.php | archive-date=17 February 2013 | df=dmy-all }} 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.[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/chaplin-the-tramps-odyssey-by-simon-louvish-1673184.html Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey, By Simon Louvish]. The Independent.
Louvish directed and produced such documentaries as End of the Dialogue, Apartheid in South Africa, Greece of Christian Greeks – the Colonels' Regime, and To Live in Freedom, the Conflict in Israel-Palestine.{{Cite web |title=Simon Louvish |url=https://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowships/simon-louvish/ |access-date=2023-11-01 |website=The Royal Literary Fund |language=en-GB}}
Publications
; The Avram Blok Saga
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=
|title=The Therapy of Avram Blok
|volume=1
|isbn=0434429708
|year=1985
|publisher=Heinemann
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=City of Blok
|volume=2
|year=1988
|isbn=
|publisher=Collins
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Last Trump of Avram Blok
|volume=3
|isbn=0006543405
|year=1991
|publisher=Flamingo
|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/lasttrumpofavram0000louv
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Days of Miracles and Wonders
|volume=4
|isbn=
|year=1997
|publisher=
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Fundamental Blok
|volume=5
|isbn=
|year=
|edition=unpublished
|publisher=Margaret Macdonald Books
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Chinese Smile
|volume=6
|isbn=
|year=
|edition=unpublished
|publisher=Margaret Macdonald Books
}}
; Fiction
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=A Moment Of Silence
|isbn=0856161314
|year=1979
|publisher=
|url-access=registration
|url=https://archive.org/details/momentofsilencej0000louv
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Death of Moishe-Ganef
|isbn=0552992860
|year=1987
|publisher=Corgi
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Your Monkey's Shmuck
|isbn=0006543464
|year=1990
|publisher=Flamingo
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Resurrections from the Dustbin of History
|isbn=0747511918
|year=1992
|publisher=Bloomsbury
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Resurrections
|isbn=1568580142
|year=1994
|publisher=Da Capo Press
|url=https://archive.org/details/resurrectionsnov00louv
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=What's Up God?: A Romance of the Apocalypse
|isbn=057505994X
|year=1995
|publisher=W&N
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Silencer
|isbn=1566561167
|year=1997
|publisher=Interlink Books
|url=https://archive.org/details/silenceranotherl00louv
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Cosmic Follies
|isbn=1900300419
|year=1999
|publisher=Institute of Contemporary Arts
}}
; Non-fiction
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=It's a Gift
|isbn=0851704727
|year=1994
|publisher=BFI Publishing
|url=https://archive.org/details/itsgift00louv
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=The Man on the Flying Trapeze - the Life & Times of W C Fields
|isbn=0393041271
|year=1997
|publisher=W. W. Norton & Co.
|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780393041279
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers
|oclc=42912991
|isbn=0571193501
|year=1999
|publisher=Faber & Faber
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish
|first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=KEYSTONE The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett
|isbn=057121276X
|year=2003
|publisher=Faber & Faber
|url=https://archive.org/details/keystonelifeclow00louv
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy
|isbn=0571215904
|year=2002
|publisher=Faber & Faber
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Mae West: It Ain't No Sin
|isbn=0571219497
|year=2006
|publisher=Faber & Faber
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Coffee With Groucho
|isbn=978-1844834693
|year=2007
|publisher=Duncan Baird
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf
|isbn=978-0571229000
|year=2007
|publisher=Faber & Faber
}}
- Also published (2008) as Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
- {{Cite book
|last=Louvish |first=Simon
|author-link=Simon Louvish
|author-mask=2
|title=Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey
|isbn=978-0571237685
|year=2009
|publisher=Faber & Faber
}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1321653|name=Simon Louvish}}
- {{isfdb name|id=Simon%20Louvish|name=Simon Louvish}}
- [http://www.simonlouvish.com/ His homepage]
- [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/books/review/Sarris-t.html New York Times] a review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
- [http://us.macmillan.com/author/simonlouvish Macmillan Publishers] a photograph of Louvish
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Category:Israeli film producers
Category:British emigrants to Israel
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