Rafael Abramovich Grugman (; born 16 October 1948) is a Russian 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: ), 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. 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 (London, 2009).
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, 2017 Napoleon's Great-Great-Grandson Speaks — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2017 The Messiah Who Might Have Been. I Was Churchill's Mistress — 2018
Fiction books
Bride of the Sea ( ) — Ukraine, Odesa: Title, 1994
Borya, get out from the sea () — Ukraine, Odesa: Southwest, 1995
Nuzhna mne vasha farshirovannaya ryba () — Ukraine, Odesa: Printing House, 2004
Borya, get out from the sea – 2. Odesa Tales () — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2019
Forbidden Love — Russia, Moscow, Rodina, 2020
Testament of Mazepa, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, revealed in Odesa to the great-great-grandson of Napoleon Bonaparte () — 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 Woman and War: From Love to Hate () — Russia, Moscow, Algorithm, 2018 The Death of Stalin. All the Versions And One More () — Russia, Moscow, Eksmo, Rodina, 2021