1. 2018 Viewbug Community Choice Award

             Mémoires

       d'un fils de nazis

“Je suis né en 1937. Mon père, duquel je me souviens si peu, à part cette image où je le vois me prenant dans ses bras et me soulevant très haut dans les airs, est mort dans un accident de voiture quelques mois avant la déclaration de la guerre. Petit, il paraît que je ne cessais de le réclamer lorsqu’il était au travail, ma mère, elle, en était très fière, car il comptait parmi les hautes autorités du Parti, faisant de nous une famille respectée ...”

La première partie de ces ‘Mémoires’ est le texte de l’auteur le plus largement diffusé dans le monde. Il a paru dans des revues littéraires en français (l’Autre Journal, le Bulletin de la Fondation Auschwitz, Les Cahiers du Sens, etc.), en anglais, toujours dans sa propre version, aussi bien aux Etats-Unis, qu’au Canada, en Grande Bretagne et en Inde , réédité à plusieurs reprises, ainsi qu’en traduction italienne, allemande , grecque, turque et polonaise. En août 2014, ce même texte a été pré-sélectionné, sous le titre de 'Venitian Thresholds', par l'American Gem and Filmmakers Literary Festival.

I-SRAELI SYNDROME

Published by l'Aleph in November 2013

2009 BOOK AWARDS www.indieexcellence.com

Multicultural Fiction Finalist

http://www.l-aleph.com/

The novel is set in Israel. Alexis, who grew up in Rwanda-Burundi, is the son of an Italian Jew and a beautiful mulatto woman. As a young adult, he now queries the complexity of his roots: African-European and Judeo-Christian (his mother was raised a Catholic). The author guides the reader through a progression of exciting and complicated episodes involving Alexis. With his American wife he will vacation in Israel, and that stay will be a turning point in his life. The past catches up with him, exploding with the images of one man's life kaleidoscope: the memories of his African years, colliding with the more recent images of Milan, the smells, the colors and the primeval beauty of the black continent, mingling with those of Italy, as well as with the violent feelings Israel stirs in him. In that dense and haunting atmosphere he will meet young Israelis, a Palestinian and a German professor, the nephew of a Nazi soldier who died during WWII. Will Alexis finally reconcile himself with the conflicting parts of his identity? Will he feel more African or more European; more Catholic or more Jewish; or will his new environment help him find peace within himself, in spite of the country’s current dangers? The ‘mystery’ will unravel in the last chapter of this largely autobiographical novel. ‘There is a type of novel whose aim, as Jonathan Swift wrote of his intention behind Gulliver's Travels, is to “vex the world rather than divert it.” If it's a good and true novel then it will inevitably also serve both as a vexatious testament and a diverting read. Such is Albert Russo's I-sraeli Syndrome.

I-sraeli Syndrome is very much a biography of the soul, and as much as that of any latter-day Harry Haller, and Russo seems to have dredged in its pages the depths of his own being in order to have written it.’ 

                          David Alexander                              

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Excerpt from James Baldwin's letter to the author, penned the year of his death: “I like your work very much indeed. It has a very gentle surface and a savage under-tow. You're a dangerous man.”

See the author's own French version entitled LA TOUR SHALOM, published by Editions Hors Commerce in 2005 . SHALOM TOWER SYNDROME was also published in Italian in 2008 by Libreria Edizioni Croce

in Montauk, Long Island, New York

Sang mêlé

Le grand roman

d'Albert Russo

Ginkgo Editeur 

Diffusion/distribution CDE/Sodis

http://recherche.fnac.com/

ia119638/Albert-Russo

Editions France Loisirs

Some of my photos were exhibited at the

Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland, in Times Square (NYC), at the Louvre Museum, the Pierre Cardin Space, both in Paris, and in Venice

Quelques unes de mes photos ont été exposées au

Musée de l'Elysée à Lausanne, à Times Square, au Louvre, à l'espace Cardin à Paris et à Venise

PHOTO WEBSITES:

www.viewbug.com/member/albertrusso
 

https://artavita.com/artists/7612-albert-russo

http://artbook.gallery/albert.russo

THE BENEVOLENT AMERICAN

IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS

A trilogy of Albert Russo’s

award-winning

African novels set in

the former Belgian Congo

and Rwanda-Urundi

http://www2.xlibris.com

/bookstore/

bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=26766

XLibris - English

- Lettre de James Balwin à Albert Russo à propos de 'Sang Mêlé ':

“... J’aime votre écriture, car dans un style policé vous exprimez des sentiments violents, faisant éclater des vérités terrifiantes.”

- Voici ce que le grand écrivain contemporain, Edmund White, l'auteur de la magistrale biographie de Jean Genet et de romans à succès, dit de SANG MELE :

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"Albert Russo a su recréer, à travers les joies et les angoisses d'un jeune métis congolais, les tensions de la vie moderne, qu'il s'agisse des relations entre noirs et blancs, entre le Tiers monde et nos sociétés technologiquement avancées, ou de la question toujours épineuse de l'homosexualité ...  SANG MELE est un roman que l'on ne lache pas, tel quel, il est envoûtant."

The Norwegian Public Schools have chosen Albert Russo's poem LOST IDENTITY for their students' (close to 2,000) final English examinations, before they can enter university.

City of lovers / of wonder

Parie la Grosse Pomme

Indie excellence finalist

Both books lauded by the Mayor of New York City

New York at heart

New York au coeur

Indie excellence finalist

Body glorious /

Corps à corps

Books And Authors 2008 WINNER

Indie excellence finalist

Photolaureate 2009

Ville d’Avray, France

in his NYC apartment

in Montauk, Long Island,

            New York

Bruxelles au galop

Brussels Ride

All photos  and  English book covers are by /

Toutes les photos et couvertures de livres en anglais sont de /

ALBERT RUSSO

INSPIRATION ARTBOOK

VIEWbug rockstar award

twilight in Venice

Svalbard, North Pole

and Peer awards

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1.  Benoît

2. Singer Salit Fridman

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   A L B ER T    R U S S O

     aging among the fish

  with Congolese friends

with the Director

of the philantropic  Sarvodaya

in Sri Lanka

receiving the British    Diversity Award in  London, United Kingdom

           at UNESCO

 with Director Mr M'Bow  and African friends

  acting in Paris theater

     with French actress                Suzanne Flon

     in Brugge, Belgium

in Milan, Italy

        Graduation

New York University

     in Berlin, Germany

     in Laeken, Belgium

presenting his first book  on television

in Palma de Mallorca,   Spain

jiving with his little  sister in Usumbura,  Ruanda-Urundi

with his beloved mother in front of lake Kivu, Eastern Congo

in Kobe, Japan

in Sion, Switzerland

with his cousin Reggie in  Rhodesia / Zimbabwe

      with his parents in

Cape Town, South Africa

1. Best Israeli photographer

      35Awards - Moscow

Bryggen: Bergen, Norway

Halong Bay - Vietnam

Valencia sand art - Spain