Name Emile Capouya Role Essayist | ||
Died October 13, 2005, East Meredith, New York, United States Books The Rising of the Moon: A Novel, In the Sparrow Hills: Stories Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada | ||
Emile Capouya (1925 – 13 October 2005) was an essayist, critic, and writer.
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Life
Capouya studied at Columbia University in New York City and started his working life at New Directions. From 1969–1981 he was publisher at The Nation and wrote for The New American Review, The New York Times and The Saturday Review. Capouya published the work of Ezra Pound, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Paul Sartre and James Joyce.
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.
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