Simon Louvish (born 6 April 1947, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scots-born Israeli author, writer and filmmaker. He has written many books about Avram Blok, a fictional Israeli caught up between wars, espionage, prophets, revolutions, loves, and a few near apocalypses.

Louvish is a visiting lecturer in Screen Studies at the London Film School.^[1] He has written books on W. C. Fields, The Marx Brothers, Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy, Mae West, Cecil B. DeMille, Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin.^[2]

Louvish directed and produced such documentaries as End of the Dialogue, Apartheid in South Africa, Greece of Christian Greeks – the Colonels' Regime, and To Live in Freedom, the Conflict in Israel-Palestine.^[3]

Publications[edit]

The Avram Blok Saga

• Louvish, Simon (1985). The Therapy of Avram Blok. Vol. 1. Heinemann. ISBN 0434429708.
• —— (1988). City of Blok. Vol. 2. Collins.
• —— (1991). The Last Trump of Avram Blok. Vol. 3. Flamingo. ISBN 0006543405.
• —— (1997). The Days of Miracles and Wonders. Vol. 4.
• ——. The Fundamental Blok. Vol. 5 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books.
• ——. The Chinese Smile. Vol. 6 (unpublished ed.). Margaret Macdonald Books.

Fiction

• —— (1979). A Moment Of Silence. ISBN 0856161314.
• —— (1987). Death of Moishe-Ganef. Corgi. ISBN 0552992860.
• —— (1990). Your Monkey's Shmuck. Flamingo. ISBN 0006543464.
• —— (1992). Resurrections from the Dustbin of History. Bloomsbury. ISBN 0747511918.
• —— (1994). Resurrections. Da Capo Press. ISBN 1568580142.
• —— (1995). What's Up God?: A Romance of the Apocalypse. W&N. ISBN 057505994X.
• —— (1997). The Silencer. Interlink Books. ISBN 1566561167.
• —— (1999). The Cosmic Follies. Institute of Contemporary Arts. ISBN 1900300419.

Non-fiction

• —— (1994). It's a Gift. BFI Publishing. ISBN 0851704727.
• —— (1997). The Man on the Flying Trapeze - the Life & Times of W C Fields. W. W. Norton & Co. ISBN 0393041271.
• —— (1999). Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571193501. OCLC 42912991.^[4]
• —— (2003). KEYSTONE The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennett. Faber & Faber. ISBN 057121276X.
• —— (2002). Stan and Ollie: The Roots Of Comedy. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571215904.
• —— (2006). Mae West: It Ain't No Sin. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0571219497.
• —— (2007). Coffee With Groucho. Duncan Baird. ISBN 978-1844834693.
• —— (2007). Cecil B. DeMille and the Golden Calf. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571229000.
  • Also published (2008) as Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
• —— (2009). Chaplin: The Tramp's Odyssey. Faber & Faber. ISBN 978-0571237685.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Simon Louvish at IMDb
• Simon Louvish at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• His homepage
• New York Times a review of Cecil B. DeMille: A Life in Art
• Macmillan Publishers a photograph of Louvish