Richard zimler

Richard Zimler
“God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze."

Richard Zimler was born in 1956, in Roslyn Heights, a suburb of New York. He is a journalist, writer and teacher American naturalized Portuguese. Zimler, in 1977, earned a bachelor’s degree in comparative religion from Duke University and in 1982, a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University. After, he worked for eight years as a journalist, mainly in the San Francisco Bay area. In 1990, he moved to Porto, where he taught journalism for sixteen years, first at the College of Journalism and later at the University of Porto. Richard has published eight novels over the last 15 years. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists in 12 different countries, including the USA, Great Britain, Portugal, Italy, Brazil and Australia. * The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon – in April 1996 * Unholy Ghosts – in 1996 * The Angelic Darkness – in September 1998 * Hunting Midnight – in July 2003 * Guardian of the Dawn – in February 2005 * The Search for Sana – in June 2005 * The Seventh Gate – in February 2007 * The Warsaw Anagrams – in February 2011

Zimler also wrote two children's books that were published in Portuguese: Dança Quando Chegares ao Fim and Hugo e Eu e as Mangas de Marte. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Hunting Midnight, Guardian of the Dawn and The Seventh Gate form the “Sephardic Cycle,” a group of inter-connected, but fully independent. They are novels about different branches and generations of a Portuguese Jewish family. In 2009, Richard wrote and acted in The Slow Mirror, a short movie based on one of his stories. It won the Best Drama award from the New York Downtown Short Film Festival, in May 2010. Richard also writes reviews for the L.A. Times. When he’s not writing, he enjoys