I'M YOUR MAN -  
THE LIFE OF 
LEONARD COHEN 
  
by Sylvie Simmons 
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Title
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I'm Your Man - The Life of Leonard Cohen  
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Author
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Sylvie Simmons
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Country & Year 
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USA/Canada/UK (hardcover) 2012  
UK 2013 (Paperback)
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Publishers
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Harper Collins, USA (2012) 
McClelland & Stewart, Canada (2012) 
Jonathan Cape/Random House, UK (2012) 
Vintage Books, UK (2013, paperback) 
Random House, Canada (2013, large size paperback de luxe edition) 
 
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Pages
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 USA and Canada: 576 
UK: hardcover 560, paperback 546  
Canada: large-size, de luxe edition 570
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Notes
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USA: ISBN 9780061994982 
Canada: 9780771080401 
Canada: 9780771080418 (large-size paperback, deluxe edition 
UK: 9780224090636 (hardcover)  
UK: 9780099549321 (paperback) 
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Summary
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I’m Your Man is the definitive account of that extraordinary life. Acclaimed music journalist Sylvie Simmons crafts a portrait of Cohen as nuanced as the man himself, 
drawing on a wealth of research that includes Cohen’s personal archives and more than a hundred exclusive interviews with those closest to Cohen—from his lovers, friends, 
monks, professors, rabbis and fellow musicians to his muses, including Rebecca De Mornay, Marianne Ihlen, Suzanne Elrod and Suzanne Verdal—and most important, with Cohen himself, whose presence infuses these pages. 
  
Starting in , Cohen’s birthplace, where he first found fame as a poet in the fifties, Simmons follows his trail, via London and the Greek island of Hydra, 
to New York in the sixties, where he launched his music career. From there she traces the arc of his prodigious achievements to his remarkable retreat in the mid-nineties—when on the 
cusp of marriage to a beautiful actress and enjoying the success of his best-selling album to date, he entered a monastery on a rocky mountaintop above Los Angeles—and 
finally to his reemergence for a sold-out world tour almost fifteen years later. Whether navigating Cohen’s journeys through the back streets of Mumbai or the countless hotel 
rooms where he has stayed along the way, Simmons explores with equal focus every complex, contradictory strand of Cohen’s life—from the halls of academia to the arenas of 
rock ’n’ roll—and presents a deeply insightful portrait of both the artist and the man whose vision, spirit, depth and talent continue to move people like no one else. 
  
Read an interview with Sylvie Simmons here 
  
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  Covers of German / Spanish / Dutch / Italian / Hebrew / Norwegian / Polish /  
Chinese / Finnish / Slovenian / Chinese (Taiwan) / Portuguese (for Brazil) /  
French (Canadian) / Turkish / Danish / Korean / French (France) /  
Portuguese (for Portugal) / Croatian editions
  
  
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Title
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German edition: I'm Your Man. Das Leben des Leonard Cohen 
Dutch edition: I'm Your Man - Het leven van Leonard Cohen 
Spanish edition: Soy tu hombre. La vida de Leonard Cohen 
Danish edition:I'm Your Man - En biografi om Leonard Cohen 
Italian edition: Vita di Leonard Cohen 
Hebrew edition: [The Life of Leonard Cohen] 
Norwegian edition: I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohens Liv 
Polish edition: Leonard Cohen - Jestem twoim mężczyzną 
Chinese edition: [Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man] 
Finnish edition: I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohenin elämä 
Slovenian edition: Pravi moški zate - Življenje Leonarda  
Taiwanese edition: [I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen] 
Portuguese/Brazilian edition: I'm Your Man - La vida de Leonard Cohen 
French editions (Canada and France): I'm Your Man - la vie de Leonard Cohen 
Turkish edition: I'm Your Man: Cohen'in Hayati 
Korean edition: I'm Your Man - [The Life of Leonard Cohen] 
Portuguese (for Portugal) edition: I'm Your Man - A vida de Leonard Cohen 
Croatian edition: I'm Your Man: Život Leonarda Cohena | 
 
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Translated by:
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Germany edition: Kirsten Borchardt 
Dutch edition: René Van Veen  
Spanish edition: Franciscoi J. Ramos Mena  
Danish edition: Jakob Levinsen 
Italian edition: Yuri Garrett 
Hebrew Edition: Udi Tagri 
Norwegian edition: Håvard Rem 
Polish edition: Magdalena Bugajska 
Chinese edition: Zhen Chen 
Finnish edition: Jouni Jussila 
Slovenian edition: Miha Avanzo and Mario Batelić  
Taiwan: ? 
Portuguese/Brazilian edition: Patrícia Azeredo  
French editions (Canada and France): Élisabeth Domergue and Françoise Vella 
Turkish edition: Duygu Akin 
Korean edition: Min Jeong 
Portuguese/Portugal edition: Paulo Faria 
Croatian edition: Selma Muftić Pustički | 
 
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Country & Year 
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Germany/The Netherlands/Spain 2012 
Italy/Israel/Norway/Poland/Denmark 2013  
China/Finland/Slovenia 2014 
Taiwan 2015 
Brazil 2016 
Canada/Turkey/Denmark 2017 
South Korea/France 2018 
Portugal 2019 
Croatia 2019 
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Publishers
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Germany: btb Verlag  
The Netherlands: Nijgh & Van Ditmar  
Spain: Editorial Lumen  
Denmark: Gyldendal 
Italy: Caissa Italia  
Israel: Kinneret, Zmora-Bitan, dvir Publishing House Ltd. 
Norway: Cappelen Damm 
Poland: Wydawnictwo Marginesy, Warsaw 
China:  CNS - China South Publishing & Media Group Co, Beijing and Shanghai 
Finland: Sammakko 
Slovenia: Založba Mladinska knjiga  
Taiwan: Chinese Times Publishing Co, Taipei 
Brazil: Editora BestSeller, Brazil 
Canada (Quebec): Edito 
Turkey: Kara Plak 
Korea:  
France: Les Editions de l'Echappée 
Portugal: Edições Tinta da China  
Croatia: Vuković & Runjić  
 
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Pages
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Germany: 752 + photo insert 
The Netherlands: 448 + photo insert 
Spain: 742 + photo insert 
Denmark: 559 + photo insert 
Italy: 448 + photo insert 
Israel: 512 (book only); 574 (including all comments in appendix) 
Norway: 576 + photo insert  
Poland: 600  - multiple photos throughout the book  
China: 429, no photos 
Finland: 541   + photo insert 
Slovenia: 656, no photos  
Taiwan: 528 + photo insert 
Brazil: 504 + photo insert 
Canada and France: 576 + photo insert 
Turkey: 448, no photos 
Korea:  
Portugal: 616 
Croatia: 480 + photo insert 
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Notes
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ISBN: 
Germany: 9783442752928   
Netherlands: 9789038896298 (Paperback) 
Spain: 9788426419194  
Italy: 9788867290192 
Israel: 9789655525717 
Norway: 9788202410407 
Poland: 9788363656645 
China: 8613701371629 
Finland: 9789524832847 
Slovenia: 9789610132752 
Taiwan: 9789571362410 
Brazil: 9788576849773 
Canada: 9782924720257 
Turkey: 9786056640797 
Denmark: 9788702103663 
Korea:  
France: 9782373090420 
Portugal: 9789896715106  
Croatia: 9789532862263 
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