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|edition=unpublished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 news |title=Nonfiction Book Review: Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo with Added Gummo by Simon Louvish |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780312252922 |access-date=28 May 2022 |work=publishersweekly.com |date=1 June 2000}}

  • {{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

}}

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