Catherine Gaskin
Catherine Gaskin Cornberg (born April 2, 1929 in Dundalk Bay , Ireland , † September 6, 2009 in Sydney , Australia ) was an Irish writer . She wrote 21 novels that sold over 40 million copies worldwide.
Life
Catherine Gaskin was born the youngest of six children to James Gaskin and Mary Harrington. At the age of three months, the family moved to Australia , where Gaskin grew up in Coogee , a suburb of Sydney. She attended Holy Cross School in Woollahra and studied piano at the Sydney Conservatory of Music. At the age of 14 she started writing her first novel. Every morning at 4:00 am, she started writing for two hours before going to school. The novel was published in 1946 under the title This Other Eden .
After her second novel Dust in Sunlight , she moved to England , where she wrote three other bestsellers: All Else Is Folly , All Else Is Folly and Daughter of the House . During this time she took care of her sick sister Moira, with whom she later moved to London . It took Gaskin two and a half years of research to write her sixth novel, Sara Dane . The story was based on the real life of Mary Reibey , sold over 2 million copies worldwide and was the basis for the 1982 Australian television series Sara Dane of the same name . Her novel The File on Devlin , published in 1965, was also made into a film by Australian television in 1969.
In 1955 Gaskin met her husband, who was 21 years her senior, Sol Cornberg, a television producer for the Australian television station GTV. They married in New York City and lived in Manhattan for over ten years . They then lived for a while in St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands before settling in Ballymacahara , near Rathnew in Ireland in 1967 . They then lived on Isle of Man from 1981 . By The Charmed Circle in 1988 her last novel was published. Since her husband was seriously ill, she gave up writing and took care of him from then on. When her husband died in 1999, she returned to Australia, where she lived in Mosman . Gaskin died on September 6, 2009 at the age of 80 from complications from ovarian cancer . She herself had no children and left two step-sons.
Works
Publishing year | Original title | Year (translation) | German title | translator |
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1946 | This Other Eden | |||
1947 | With Every Year | |||
1950 | Dust in Sunlight | |||
1951 | All Else Is Folly | 1959 | Everything else is folly |
Hans Trausil Leonore Donant |
1952 | Daughter of the House | |||
1954 | Sara Dane | 1956 | Like sand at the ocean | Cilly Lutter |
1958 | Blake's Reach | 1958 | Because life is love |
Hans Trausil Leonore Donant |
1960 | Corporation Wife | 1961 | Where you are going ... |
Iris Foerster Rolf Hellmut |
1970 | In the shadow of their men |
Iris Foerster Rolf Hellmut |
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1962 | I know my love | 1964 | The green-eyed lady | Karin S. Krausskopf |
1963 | The Tilsit Inheritance | 1965 | The English inheritance | Karin S. Krausskopf |
1965 | The File On Devlin | 1967 | The Devlin case | Karin S. Krausskopf |
1967 | Edge of glass | 1972 | Happiness and glass | Renate Nauck |
1970 | Fiona | 1979 | Fire in paradise | Cilly Lutter |
1972 | A Falcon for a Queen | 1974 | A falcon for the queen | Susanne Lepsius |
1974 | The property of a gentleman | 1975 | A wind chimes in the fog | Susanne Lepsius |
2005 | The secret of the manor | Susanne Lepsius | ||
1975 | The Lynmara Legacy | 1976 | Lynmara | Gisela Kirberg |
1979 | Love at Lynmara Castle | Gisela Kirberg | ||
1977 | The Summer of the Spanish Woman | 1978 | The legacy of the Marquesa | Susanne Lepsius |
1980 | Family affairs | 1980 | The family secret | Susanne Lepsius |
1982 | Promises | 1983 | The big promise | Susanne Lepsius |
1985 | The Ambassador's Women | 1987 | The hour of truth | Susanne Lepsius |
1988 | The Charmed Circle | 1989 | The storms of life | Susanne Lepsius |
Web links
- Catherine Gaskin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Catherine Gaskin in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e 'Queen of Storytellers' who published first novel at age 17 ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Irish Times (via highbeam.com)
- ↑ a b c The girl with the golden pen , smh.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gaskin, Catherine |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cornberg, Catherine Gaskin (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1929 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dundalk Bay , Ireland |
DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 2009 |
Place of death | Sydney , Australia |