Norman Lewis (author)

Norman Lewis ( born June 28, 1908 in Forty Hill, † July 22, 2003 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England ) was a British writer who was known for his travel reports.

Life and work

Lewis served in World War II and published after his Naples '44, an experience report on Italy's occupation by the Allies.

After the war he wrote about Indochina A Dragon Apparent (1951) and Burma the travelogue Golden Earth ( 1952). Lewis was fascinated by the cultures that had little contact with the modern world, he wrote about his travels to Indonesia the band An Empire of the East (1993 ) and India A Goddess in the Stones (1991).

Lewis was married three times, his first wife, Ernestina, was a Swiss - Sicilian, so that even the Sicilian life, including the Mafia to one of his more important issues were. 1964 This was reflected in the work, The Honoured Society - Down The Mafia Conspiracy Observed showing a deeper insight into Sicilian society and the people.

Another key point was his aversion to the missionary efforts in Latin America, especially those of American evangelicals, whom he treated in 1988 in his The Missionaries. His 1968 article published in the Sunday Times article about the genocide in Brazil ( Genocide in Brazil) created such an outrage that saw the establishment of the protecting organization Survival International.

Norman Lewis died 95 years old in British Saffron Walden.

Works

Novels, short stories

• German edition: The Sicilian. Novel. Schroeder, Dusseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-547-76021-6

Travel stories, nonfiction

• German edition: Naples '44. An Intelligence Officer in the Italian Labyrinth. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bolzano 1996, ISBN 3-85256-029-2

• German edition: The Voices of the old sea. Novel. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-458-16869-9

• German edition: The missionaries. About the destruction of other cultures. An eyewitness report. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-608-95312-4