Au Naturel / Born Naked

Publisher Marketing: Portraits of the author, alone or accompanied, taken in Africa, The US, Europe, where he has resided, and around the world, in different stages of his life, with pictures of his abode. Note: the quality of the photos is variable, this book being primarily a photographic history of the author rather than a professional photobook. Some of these pictures are erotic, some, very kitch, and others frankly ridiculous, like life itself at times. Albert Russo who has published worldwide over 80 books of poetry, fiction and photography, in both English and French, his two mother tongues (Italian being his 'paternal' tongue; he also speaks Spanish and German and still has notions of Swahili), is the recipient of many awards, such as The New York Poetry Forum and Amelia (CA) awards, The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, several Writer's Digest poetry and fiction awards, and the Prix Colette, among others. His work has been translated into a dozen languages in 25 countries, on the five continents. He has garnered several prizes for his photography books, Indie Excellence awards, among others. Some of his photos have been exhibited at the prestigious Museum of Photography in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was also a member of the 1996 jury for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature which often leads to the Nobel Prize of Literature. Author's website: www.albertrusso.eu Contributor Bio:  Russo, Albert Auteur bilingue de nationalite belge (le francais et l'anglais sont ses deux langues 'maternelles'), publie sur les cinq continents, Albert Russo a obtenu de nombreux prix litteraires, tant pour sa prose que pour sa poesie, dont le Prix Colette, le Prix de la Liberte, The American Society of Writers Fiction Award, The British Diversity Short Story Award, The National Library of Poetry Editor's Choice Award, des mentions honorables aux W. B. Yeats et Robert Penn Warren awards, divers New York Poetry Forum Awards, etc. Ses ouvrages ont ete traduits dans une douzaine de langues, dont le grec, le turc et le polonais, et ont ete diffuses par le Service Mondial de la BBC. Il est jure du Prix Europeen (avec Ionesco, jusqu'a la mort de ce dernier) et a siege au jury du prestigieux Neustadt International Prize for Literature, antichambre du Prix Nobel. Ses romans africains ont ete compares tres favorablement a l'oeuvre de V. S. Naipaul, Prix Nobel de Litterature. Son oeuvre a ete reconnue et louee par des ecrivains tels que Joseph Kessel, James Baldwin, Pierre Emmanuel, Paul Willems, Georges Sion, Douglas Parmee, Werner Lambersy, Edmund White et Gilles Perrault.