Simon Louvish Explained

Simon Louvish
Birth Date:	6 April 1947
Birth Place:	Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation:	Novelist
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Simon Louvish (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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Publications

The Avram Blok Saga

• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . The Therapy of Avram Blok . 1 . 0434429708 . 1985 . Heinemann .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . City of Blok . 2 . 1988 . Collins .
• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Last Trump of Avram Blok . 3 . 0006543405 . 1991 . Flamingo . registration .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Days of Miracles and Wonders . 4 . 1997 .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Fundamental Blok . 5 . unpublished . Margaret Macdonald Books.
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Chinese Smile . 6 . unpublished . Margaret Macdonald Books.

Fiction

• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . A Moment Of Silence . 0856161314 . 1979 . registration .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Death of Moishe-Ganef . 0552992860 . 1987 . Corgi.
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Your Monkey's Shmuck . 0006543464 . 1990 . Flamingo.
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Resurrections from the Dustbin of History . 0747511918 . 1992 . Bloomsbury.
• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Resurrections . 1568580142 . 1994 . Da Capo Press .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . What's Up God?: A Romance of the Apocalypse . 057505994X . 1995 . W&N.
• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Silencer . 1566561167 . 1997 . Interlink Books .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Cosmic Follies . 1900300419 . 1999 . Institute of Contemporary Arts .

Non-fiction

• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . It's a Gift . 0851704727 . 1994 . .
• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . The Man on the Flying Trapeze - the Life & Times of W C Fields . 0393041271 . 1997 . W. W. Norton & Co. .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers . 42912991 . 0571193501 . 1999 . Faber & Faber. ^[4]
• Book: Louvish , Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . KEYSTONE The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett . 057121276X . 2003 . Faber & Faber .
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy . 0571215904 . 2002 . Faber & Faber.
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Mae West: It Ain't No Sin . 0571219497 . 2006 . Faber & Faber.
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Coffee With Groucho . 978-1844834693 . 2007 . Duncan Baird.
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf . 978-0571229000 . 2007 . Faber & Faber.
  • Also published (2008) as Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
• Book: Louvish, Simon . Simon Louvish . 2 . Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey . 978-0571237685 . 2009 . Faber & Faber.

External links

• • • His homepage
• New York Times a review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
• Macmillan Publishers a photograph of Louvish

Notes and References

1. Web site: Staff and Governors . London Film School . 25 June 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130217032453/http://www.lfs.org.uk/about/staff.php . 17 February 2013 . dmy-all .
2. 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
3. Web site: Simon Louvish . 2023-11-01 . The Royal Literary Fund . en-GB.
4. News: Nonfiction Book Review: Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo with Added Gummo by Simon Louvish . 28 May 2022 . publishersweekly.com . 1 June 2000.