Rafael Grugman

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).

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.

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 Odessa, and conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures. He was the first editor of the Jewish newspaper Ha-Meletz (Russian: Ха-Мелиц), published in Odessa after the collapse of the USSR.

During student years he worked as a journalist for several Novosibirsk newspapers. In 1971 he returned to Odessa 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.

Rafael Abramovich Grugman (Russian: Рафаэль Абрамович Гругман; born 16 October 1948) is a Russian writer, journalist, engineer, programmer and college educator.