Oswald LeWinter
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Oswald LeWinter (born 1931) is an Austrian-born American poet. He is also a famous hoaxer, most notably he tried to sell forgeries to Mohamed Fayed in 1998, suggesting that the British intelligence service was involved in the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.[1][2][3]
In the early 1990s, LeWinter was exposed when he was used as source in many publications regarding the October surprise conspiracy, including the works of Barbara Honegger, Richard Brenneke and Gary Sick.[1][1][3] — Gary Sick, who cited him in his book October Surprise, later repudiated him.[citation needed] He is also known under his pseudonym Ibrahim Razin.[4]
LeWinter also appeared in two Allan Francovich movies, Gladio (1992) and The Maltese Double Cross (1994).
Born in Vienna, Austria, LeWinter studied at Columbia University, before obtaining degrees from UC Berkeley (B.A. 1960) and San Francisco State College (M.A. 1961); he received a doctorate of social sciences from the University of Tubingen in Germany. He has taught the History of Ideas at Jagiello University in Poland, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, the University of Wurzburg, Germany, among others. He has received the International Rilke Prize in Poetry (1997) [see Poets and Writers, Inc.] He has won the Asher Prize, the Coolbrith Prize, the Shrout Short Story Prize, the New American Library Poetry Prize, and was awarded a traveling research grant by the American Philosophical Society. He has written a major article on Shakespeare for the Crowell Shakespeare Encyclopedia.
[edit] Work
Oswald LeWinter is a poet, and has also written two books that were published in Portuguese, Desmantelar a America (2001) and Democracia e Secretismo (2002). His most recent books of poems are "More Atoms of Memory" (2006), and "Ages of Chaos and Fury: Selected Poems 1949-2005" (2005). "Shakespeare in Europe," which he edited and translated in 1964 for World, Meridian and Penguin, was also translated into Portuguese and became part of the Penguin Shakespeare Series in England, chosen by Professor Spencer.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "Tinker, Tailor, Poet, Spy?", The Washington Post, 2001-02-15, pp. C01.
- ^ Frank Snepp. "October Surmise", The Village Voice, 1992-02-25, pp. 29-41.
- ^ a b U.S. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Joint report of the Task Force to Investigate Certain Allegations Concerning the Holding of American Hostages by Iran in 1980 ("October Surprise Task Force"). (H. Rpt. 102-1102). January 3, 1993.
- ^ Christopher Hitchens. "Minority Report", The Nation, 1991-12-02.
