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| Raymond Federman was born in France in 1928. He emigrated to the U.S.
in 1947. After serving in the U.S. Army in Korea and Japan (1951-54), he
studied at Columbia University and at U.C.L.A. He wrote his doctoral dissertation
on Samuel Beckett. From 1959-1964 he taught in the French Department at
the University of California at Santa Barbara, 1964-1973 in the French
Department at The State University of New York at Buffalo, and 1973-1999
as a fiction writer in the English Department at SUNY-Buffalo. In 1990
he was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor, and in 1992 he
was appointed to the Melodia E. Jones Chair of Literature. He retired from
SUNY-Buffalo in July 1999. Raymond Federman is a bilingual writer. Although
he has published five volumes of poems, four books of criticism on Samuel
Beckett, three collections of essays, numerous articles, essays,
and translations he considers himself primarily a fiction writer. To date
he has published ten novels. The latest two of them are Loose Shoes
(Weidler Verlag, Berlin, 2001), Aunt Rachel's Fur (Fc2/Black Ice
Books, 2001). His novels have been translated into German, Italian, French,
Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Rumanian, Serbian, Greek, Portuguese, Hebrew,
Japanese, Chinese, and are soon to appear in Finnish and Turkish.
Raymond Federman passed away in San Diego on 6 October 2009, aged 81. |
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Books available from Poetry Salzburg: Raymond Federman: the precipice and other catastrophies / der abgrund
und andere katastrophen, 1999. 159 pp. ISBN-13 978-3-901993-04-6; ISBN-10 3-901993-04-5
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