Samuil Aronovich Lurie (Russian: Самуил Аронович Лурье; 12 May 1942 – 7 August 2015) was a Russian writer and literary historian.[1][2] Many of his works were published under the pseudonymS Gedroitz (Russian: С. Гедройц).
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" (Russian: 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.[3]
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).[4] He died in Palo Alto, California, United States on 7 August 2015, aged 73.[5]
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
