City of Lovers - City of Wonder - Russo, Albert
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Albert Russo has written about 30 books in French and in English, the latter, published by Domhan Books and Xlibris, namely The Age of the Pearl, Beyond the Great Water, Oh Zaperetta!, The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness and The Crowded World of Solitude, volume 1, the collected stories, (which just won an award in the United States with Writer's Digest), and 2, the collected poems. His fi ction and his poetry appear in English and in French around the world; his work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered a number of awards on both sides of the Atlantic, as…mehr

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Albert Russo has written about 30 books in French and in English, the latter, published by Domhan Books and Xlibris, namely The Age of the Pearl, Beyond the Great Water, Oh Zaperetta!, The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness and The Crowded World of Solitude, volume 1, the collected stories, (which just won an award in the United States with Writer's Digest), and 2, the collected poems. His fi ction and his poetry appear in English and in French around the world; his work has been translated into a dozen languages and has garnered a number of awards on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as in India and Africa.His literary website:www.albertrusso.com Other artbooks, completing the series, published with Xlibris: ROMAdiva, Chinese puzzle, AfricaSoul, In France, Mexicana, Sri Lanka, Saint-Malo with love, Albert Russo: a poetic biography, volumes 1 & 2, Brussels ride, Italia Nostra, Sardinia, Pasión de España, Israel at heart / au coeur, Body Glorious / Corps à Corps, Granada / Ronda / Costa del Sol, Quirks / Eclats, New York at heart. Welcome to THE NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE 2008 BOOK AWARDS "The Indie Excellence Book Awards are dedicated to celebrating and promoting the outstanding work of independent publishers and authors." -Dan Poynter, author of The Self Publishing Manual and 100 other books The Indie Excellence Awards are sponsored by Smarketing, LLC. President & CEO Ellen Reid has been a respected executive in the publishing industry for over ten years. For more information about Ellen, visit http://www.bookshep.com. The Indie Excellence Awards competition is judged by an independent panel of experts from all aspects-editing, marketing, publicity, and design-of the publishing industry. The National Indie Excellence 2008 Book Awards competition presents a wonderful opportunity for all independent, small press and self publishers seeking more recognition within the publishing industry. Winners and finalists will receive national media & industry exposure! We will issue a news release announcing the results to our list of national media, print and radio contacts. We also will promote the results within the publishing industry and have a presence at Book Expo America in Los Angeles in 2008. Address Info: 269 South Beverly Drive, Suite #1065 - Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Toll Free: 866-406-4352 - 805-569-7077 Fax: 805-569-7677 Email: support@indieexcellence.com - www.indieexcellence.com PHOTOGRAPHY Winner: Historic Photos of the Opry: Ryman Auditorium 1974 by Jim McGuire www.turnerpublishing.com - Turner Publishing - 978-1-59652-373-9 Finalist: City of Lovers- City of Wonder by Albert Russo www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4357-4 Finalist: Body Glorious/Corps á corps by Albert Russo www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 1-4257-2515-5 Finalist: New York at Heart/New York au Coeur by Albert Russo www.albertrusso.com - www.xlibris.com - 978-1-4257-4359-8
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A humanist with roots in Central, Southern Africa, and the Mediterranean, Albert Russo has been acclaimed by authors, such as James Baldwin, Edmund White, Martin Tucker, Douglas Parmee of Oxford University, Adam Donaldson Powell, David Alexander, Richard Mathews, Joseph Kessel, Pierre Emmanuel, and Jean d'Ormesson, all three of the Académie Française, as well as by his African peers, Chinua Achebe and Maurice AMURI Mpala-Lutebele (University of Lubumbashi, DR Congo). His seminal work, the AFRICAN QUATUOR, set in DR Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, has appeared in his own English and French versions, as well as in translations (Italian and Dutch), in over 20 editions worldwide. All in all, his work has been translated into about 15 languages. SPEAK TO ME, MOTHER BELOVED (2019) is dedicated to his adored mother and to POETRY, with about 140 poems and as many photos in both black and white and in color, that he took during his years on the four continents in which he has resided, and during his travels around the world. His last novel co-written with Jeanette Skirvin, TEL AVIV'S ETHIOPIAN QUEEN, was published in 2021 by l'Aleph in Sweden. His most recent French novels are MÉMOIRES D'UN FILS DE NAZIS and LE CAP DES ILLUSIONS.Albert Russo was also a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, which often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Some of the Prizes he has received are: Best 2013 Unicef Short Story award in defense of childhood worldwide, for Revenge by proxy / Vengeance par procuration; 2018 Book Excellence Award for his big book GOSH ZAPINETTE!; Unicef 2018 and 2021 awards for the body of his poems; Mémoires d'un fils de nazis, novel (2020); Prix Colette, Prix de la Liberté, and Prix Littérature Jeunesse. Here are some of his other fiction and poetry awards: The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards. He has also been nominated for the W.B. Yeats and Robert Penn Warren poetry awards, Prix de l'Ile des poètes, Bronze medal (Monnaie de Paris) for his book Éclats de malachite. And last but not least, GAYTUDE, a book of poems in both English and French, co-written with Adam Donaldson Powell, the multi-talented poet, author, musician, painter and gay activist, was honored as Winner of the National Indie Excellence Award for the Category Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction in 2009.Albert Russo's 75-odd books of photography have garnered awards in the USA, UK, India, Russia, France, Switzerland, etc. Some of his work has been exhibited in the Louvre Museum, at the Espace Pierre Cardin, both in Paris, in Times Square, New York, at the Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland, in Art Berlin, in Tokyo, in Moscow, etc. He is also known for his humorous series GOSH ZAPINETTE, published in English, French and Italian.