Rafael Abramovich Grugman (; born 16 October 1948) is a Russian and Ukrainian 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

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, known as the

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, 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

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. Rafael Grugman the author of fiction and non-fiction books that were published in Russia,

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, United States and Israel. The dystopian novel '' Nontraditional Love'' "Nontraditional love", Liberty Publishing
was published by Liberty Publishing House in November 2008 and nominated for the 2009 Rossica Translation Prize (London, 2009). Rafael Grugman the author of the petition to Congress and US President Donald Trump: Romania escaped a trial for the Holocaust. Initiate a case The US versus Fascist Romania, January 3, 2018

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'' — Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 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 *
Запретная любовь. 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'
Завещание Мазепы, князя Священной Римской империи, открывшееся в Одессе праправнуку Бонапарта
— М.: Родина, 2021. — 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

Nonfiction books published in Ukraine

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Військові злочини проти жінок
The War Crimes Against Women '' — Ukraine, Kharkiv, Fabula, 2024

References

Notes

"Nontraditional love" on Amazon Kindle

"Nontraditional love" on Amazon

Interview with Rafael Grugman for an Israeli magazine "We are here", in Russian

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grugman, Rafael 1948 births People from Odesa Living people 20th-century Russian male writers Russian male novelists Writers from Odesa Soviet engineers Soviet journalists Russian male journalists American writers of Russian descent Odesa Jews American people of Russian-Jewish descent Novosibirsk State Technical University alumni