11 Facts About Raymond Federman

Raymond Federman held positions at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999, when he was appointed Distinguished Emeritus Professor.

Raymond Federman was 14 years old when his parents hid him in a small stairway landing closet as Gestapo arrived at the family home in Nazi-occupied France.

Raymond Federman's family was taken away, and his parents and two sisters were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Raymond Federman hid from the Nazis on farms in southern France during the Holocaust.

Raymond Federman later became a leading backstroker on the French national team, and emigrated to the US in 1947.

Raymond Federman taught in the French Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 1959 to 1964, and in the French Department at The State University of New York at Buffalo from 1964 to 1973, and as a fiction writer in the English Department at the University at Buffalo from 1973 to 1999.

Raymond Federman was promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor in 1990, and in 1992, appointed to the Melodia E Jones Chair of Literature, where he served until retiring in July 1999.

Raymond Federman was a member of the Board of Directors of The Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines from 1973 to 1976.

Raymond Federman's novels have been translated into over a dozen languages, and all his novels have been adapted into radio plays in Germany.

Raymond Federman is a very gifted storyteller who prefers a circular to a linear design, who comes down on the side of verbal exuberance rather than spareness.

Raymond Federman is an optimist, a lover of life, language and laughter.