Samuil Aronovich Lurie (Russian: Самуил Аронович Лурье; 12 May 1942, Sverdlovsk – 8 August 2015, Saint Petersburg) was aRussian writer and historian of literature. Many of his works were published under pseudonym S Gedroitz (Russian: С. Гедройц).

Biography

Samuil Aronovich Lurie was born to a family of philologists from Saint Petersburg evacuated during the World War II. His father, Aron Naumovich Lurie (1913-2003) was a bibliographer, and historian of literature, Doctor of Philological Science and a World War II veteran.

Lurie graduated from Leningrad State University, worked as a village school teacher (1964-1964), then for the National Pushkin Museum in Saint Petersburg(1965-1966). His first publications were in Zvezda magazine (1964). He led a coloumn in Zvezda magazine named "Lessons of Belles-Letres" (Russian: Уроки Изящной Словесности).

He became editor in 1966 of Neva (ru) magazine. 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 Russian Booker Prize jury (2012). He was awarded Zvezda magazine Prize (1993, 2003), Neva magazine Prize (2002), Peter Vyazemsky Prize (1997), I.P. Belkin Prize (2011).

Books

• Литератор Писарев: роман. Л.: Советский писатель, 1987; Print of 1963 was destroyed
• Толкование судьбы (эссе). СПб.: Борей, 1994
• Разговоры в пользу мёртвых (эссе). СПб.: Urbi, 1997
• Успехи ясновидения. СПб.: Издательство Пушкинского фонда, 2002
• Муравейник. СПб.: Издательство журнала Нева, 2002
• Нечто и взгляд. СПб.: Издательство Пушкинского фонда, 2004
• Письма полумёртвого человека (роман в письмах). СПб.: Янус, 2004 (together with Дм. Циликиным)
• Такой способ понимать. СПб.: Класс, 2007
• Сорок семь ночей. СПб.: Журнал «Звезда», 2008 (under pseudonym С. Гедройц)
• Гиппоцентавр, или Опыты чтения и письма. СПб: Читатель, 2011 (under pseudonym С. Гедройц)
• Железный бульвар. СПб.: Азбука, 2012
• Изломанный аршин. СПб.: Пушкинский фонд, 2012
• Меркуцио, Zvezda 2015