A bilingual author, Albert Russo writes in both English and French, his two ‘mother tongues’. He is the recipient of many awards, such as The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several New York Poetry Forum Awards, Amelia Prose and Poetry awards, an honorable mention at the 13th Writer’s Digest International Awards, and the Prix Colette, among others. He has also been nominated for the W.B. Yeats and Robert Penn Warren poetry awards. His work, which has been praised by James Baldwin, Pierre Emmanuel, Paul Willems, and Edmund White, has appeared worldwide in a dozen languages. His African novels have been favorably compared to the work of V.S. Naipaul, who was honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. He is a member of the jury for the Prix Européen (with Ionesco until his death), and sat on the panel of the prestigious Neustadt Prize for Literature, which often leads to the Nobel Prize for Literature. Besides his two mother tongues, he speaks and reads fluently: Italian, Spanish and German, and he has a smattering knowledge of Swahili, Dutch and Portuguese. Right now he is learning Hebrew on his own. 2013 UNICEF First Prize for poetic prose + Ranker's 300 best LGBT world writers see this link: http://www.ranker.com/list/gay-authors-l... [2] my other publishers in the world are: 1a) L'Aleph: http://www.l-aleph.com/ [3] + http://www.wisehousepublishing.com/ [4] Sam Vaseghi CEO - Sweden - 1 book by me in English 1b) www.cyberwit.net [5] , India - 1 book by me in English 1c) Poets Printery, South Africa - 1 book my me in English http://poetsprintery.book.co.za/blog/201... [6] 2) Edizioni Libreria Croce, Italy : 6 books by me in Italian http://www.edizionicroce.com/autore.asp?... [7] 3) Ginkgo Editeur, France : 5 books by me in French http://www.ginkgo-editeur.fr/lettresai.html [8] For more information, see the author's 3 websites: www.albertrusso.eu [9] - www.albertrusso.com [10] - www.authorsden.com/albertrusso [11]