Samuil Lurie

{{Short description|Russian writer and literary historian}} {{Multiple issues| {{cleanup rewrite|date=August 2015}} {{refimprove|date=August 2015}} }}

'''Samuil Aronovich Lurie''' ({{langx|ru|Самуил Аронович Лурье}}; 12 May 1942 – 7 August 2015) was a Russian writer and literary historian.<ref name="Meduaza">{{cite news|url=https://meduza.io/news/2015/08/08/umer-pisatel-samuil-lurie|title=Умер писатель Самуил Лурье|date=8 August 2015|agency=Meduza|accessdate=8 August 2015}}</ref><ref name="echo">{{cite news|url=http://echo.msk.ru/news/1599666-echo.html|title=В Петербурге скончался писатель, историк литературы Самуил Лурье|date=8 August 2015|agency=Echo of Moscow|accessdate=8 August 2015}}</ref> Many of his works were published under the pseudonym '''S Gedroitz''' ({{langx|ru| С. Гедройц}}).

==Biography== {{Moresources|section|date=August 2023}} Samuil Aronovich Lurie was born in Sverdlovsk to a family of philologists from Saint Petersburg evacuated during World War II. His father, Aron Naumovich Lurie (1913-2003), was a bibliographer, literary historian, Doctor of Philological Science and World War II veteran.

Lurie graduated from Leningrad State University and worked briefly as a village school teacher (1964-1964), then for the National Pushkin Museum in Saint Petersburg (1965-1966). His first publications were in ''Zvezda'' (1964). He wrote a column in ''Zvezda'' magazine named "Lessons of Belles-Lettres" ({{langx|ru|Уроки Изящной Словесности}}).

In 1966, he became an editor of the magazine Neva. From 1988-2002 he was editor-in-chief of the prose section. From 2002-12 he worked as an editor of ''Polden XXI Century'', a science fantasy almanac. He authored more than a thousand journal articles.<ref name="seance">{{cite web|url=http://seance.ru/author/lurje|title=Samuil Lurie profile|accessdate=9 August 2015}}</ref>

Lurie was the chairperson of the Russian Booker Prize jury (2012). He was awarded the ''Zvezda'' Prize (1993, 2003), the Neva Magazine Prize (2002), the Peter Vyazemsky Prize (1997), and the I.P. Belkin Prize (2011).<ref name=auto>{{cite web | url=http://www.samuil-lurie.com/obo-mne/ | title=Самуил Лурье | date=10 March 2015 | publisher=Samuil Lurie's personal site | accessdate=9 August 2015}}</ref> He died in Palo Alto, California, United States on 7 August 2015, aged 73.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tv100.ru/news/yakov-gordin-samuil-lure-zaveshal-razveyat-ego-prah-v-kalifornii-nad-gorodom-palo-alto-109670/ |title=Самуил Лурье завещал развеять его прах в Калифорнии - Tелеканал «100 ТВ» |accessdate=9 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821005831/http://www.tv100.ru/news/yakov-gordin-samuil-lure-zaveshal-razveyat-ego-prah-v-kalifornii-nad-gorodom-palo-alto-109670/ |archivedate=21 August 2015}}</ref>

==Books== * Литератор Писарев: роман. Л.: Советский писатель, 1987; written 1969, original printing destroyed by security organs * Толкование судьбы (эссе). СПб.: Борей, 1994 * Разговоры в пользу мёртвых (эссе). СПб.: Urbi, 1997 * Успехи ясновидения. СПб.: Издательство Пушкинского фонда, 2002 * Муравейник. СПб.: Издательство журнала Нева, 2002 * Нечто и взгляд. СПб.: Издательство Пушкинского фонда, 2004 * Письма полумёртвого человека (роман в письмах). СПб.: Янус, 2004 (together with Дм. Циликиным) * Такой способ понимать. СПб.: Класс, 2007 * Сорок семь ночей. СПб.: Журнал «Звезда», 2008 (under pseudonym С. Гедройц) * Гиппоцентавр, или Опыты чтения и письма. СПб: Читатель, 2011 (under pseudonym С. Гедройц) * Железный бульвар. СПб.: Азбука, 2012 * Изломанный аршин. СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2012 * [http://magazines.russ.ru/zvezda/2015/1/1lur.html Меркуцио], Zvezda 2015

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==External links== *[http://www.samuil-lurie.com/ Personal site] *[http://magazines.russ.ru/authors/l/salure/ Magazine publications as Samuil Lurie] *[http://magazines.russ.ru/authors/g/gedrojts/ Magazine publications as S. Gedroytz]

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