RUSSO, Albert 1943-

PERSONAL:

Male. Born February 26, 1943, in Kamina, Congo (now Zaire); son of Moise (in business) and Sarah Almeleh (a homemaker) Russo; married; wife's name Claudine (divorced); children: Tatiana, Alexandre. Education: New York University, B.Sc., 1963.

ADDRESSES:

Home and office—B.P. 640, 75825 Paris Cedex 17, France. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer.

MEMBER:

PEN American Club, Authors Guild of America, Society of French-speaking Writers.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Silver medal, Haute Academie Litteraire et Artistique de France, 1992, for Le Cap des Illusions; other awards include a fiction award from American Society of Writers, British Diversity Short Story Award, Amelia Awards for prose and poetry, Prix Colette, and several awards from New York Poetry Forum.

WRITINGS:

Eclats de Malachites (short novel), Pierre Demeyere (Brussels, Belgium), 1971.

Mosaique New Yorkaise (prose-poem novel), Nouvel Athanor (Paris, France), 1975.

Albert Russo Anthology, Legerete, 1987.

Sang mele ou ton fils Leopold (novel; originally partially published in English in periodicals), Griot (Boulogne, France), 1990, translation published as Mixed Blood, Domhan Books (New York, NY), 2000.

Le cap des illusions (novel; title means "The Cape of Illusions"), Griot (Boulogne, France), 1991.

Dans la nuit bleu-fauve/Futureyes (poetry; in French and English), Nouvel Athanor (Paris, France), 1992.

Eclipse sur le lac Tanganyika (novel), Nouvel Athanor (Paris, France), 1994, translation published as Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika, Domhan Books (New York, NY), 2000.

Venetian Thresholds and Other Stories and Poems, 1996.

Painting the Tower of Babel (poetry chapbook), New Hope International Press (England), 1996.

Poetry and Peasants (poetry), Cherrybite (South Wirral, England), 1997.

Zapinette Video (novel), Xlibris (Princeton, NJ), 1998.

Zapinette à New York (novel), Hors Commerce (Paris, France), 2000.

L'amant de mon père (novel), Nouvel Athanor (Paris, France), 2000.

Unmasking Hearts (short stories and essays), Domhan Books (New York, NY), 2001.

The Age of the Pearl (short stories), Domhan Books (New York, NY), 2001.

Beyond the Great Water (short stories), Domhan Books (New York, NY), 2001.

Zany, Zapinette New York (novel), Domhan Books (New York, NY), 2001.

Books in French include Le Regne du Cameleon (novel), and Zapinette chez les belges, published by Hors Commerce (Paris, France); other writings include The Prisons of Love/Rage d'Eoliennes. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of more than 300 poems, short stories, and essays to periodicals in both English and French, including Literary Review and Playboy.

Some writings have been translated into other languages, including Greek, German, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Flemish, Dutch, and Serbian.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Black Ancestor, a novel.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Literary Review, summer, 2000, David Alexander, review of Zapinette Video, p. 610.

World Literature Today, spring, 1993, review of Dans la nuit bleu-fauve/Futureyes, p. 436; summer, 1995, Leslie Schenk, review of Eclipse sur le lac Tanganyika, p. 634; spring, 1996, Leslie Schenk, review of Venetian Thresholds and Other Stories and Poems, p. 406; fall, 1996, Leslie Schenk, review of Zapinette Video, p. 910, fall, 1996, Leslie Schenk, review of Painting the Tower of Babel, p. 965; winter, 1996, Leslie Schenk, "Albert Russo and South Africa," p. 79; spring, 1998, Jean-Luc Breton, review of Poetry and Peasants, p. 380; summer, 2000, Jean-Luc Breton, review of Mixed Blood, p. 597, Jean-Luc Breton, review of Zapinette à New York, p. 626, summer, 2000, Jean-Luc Breton, review of L'amant de mon père, p. 632; spring, 2001, Jean-Luc Breton, review of Beyond the Great Water, p. 334; summer-autumn, 2001, Jean-Luc Breton, review of Unmasking Hearts, p. 149; winter, 2002, Jean-Luc Breton, review of The Age of the Pearl, p. 149.