Emile Capouya was an American

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, and writer. His book 'In the sparrow Hills' won the

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of the

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. Mr. Capouya was born in Manhattan in 1925 and grew up in the Bronx.

Life

Capouya studied at Columbia University in New York City and started his working life at '' New Directions''. From 1969–1981 he was Literary Editor of '' The Nation'' and wrote for ''

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'', '' The New York Times'' and '' The Saturday Review''. Capouya published the work of

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, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre and James Joyce. In 1971 he was appointed associate professor of English at Baruch College, where he taught for ten years. In 1993 he published his first book of short stories, ''In the Sparrow Hills'', a compilation of stories based on his time with Handelsmarine in World War II. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. In 1968, he married Keitha Capouya who is a publisher. Keitha was the founder of ''New Amsterdam Books''.

Literature

*''In the Sparrow Hills'', Algonquin Books 1993, * Ismail Kadare, Emile Capouya: ''Albanian Spring: The Anatomy of Tyranny'', Saqi Books 1994, * Emile Capouya, Keitha Capouya: ''Classic English Love Poems'', Hippocrene Books 1999, *''The Rising of the Moon'', Lyons Press 2003,

References

External links

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NY Times Article
{{DEFAULTSORT:Capouya, Emile 1925 births 2005 deaths American literary critics American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers Columbia College (New York) alumni