Esther Freud
Esther Freud (born May 2, 1963 in London ) is a British writer .
Life
Esther Freud is one of the two illegitimate daughters of Bernardine Coverley and the painter Lucian Freud ; she has twelve guaranteed half-siblings through Lucian Freud. In Great Britain she is considered one of the most important writers of her year (Granta List from 1993). Her novels have been translated into 15 languages. In her novels, some of which are autobiographical , loss of home and homelessness often play a central role. Again and again they circle around the early loss of the father and deal with the attempt to find support and security again. In her third novel, Summer in Gaglow , she deals with the consequences of forced emigration, which reflects a piece of her own family history.
Her autobiographical first work Marrakech is about a hippie mother who moves with her two daughters from gray London to promising Marrakech in the late 1960s. The story is told from the point of view of a five-year-old, who describes the wild, free life in North Africa and the anti-authoritarian upbringing propagated by the mother, with which the two children do not always have it easy. The longing for the father or a father figure is also at the center. In 1998 this novel was successfully filmed under the title of the same name Marrakech .
Freud's second book, Blaues Wunder, is about a drama student who is torn between the longing for recognition and the feeling that she doesn't really belong anywhere.
Esther Freud is married to British actor David Morrissey , with whom she has three children. She lives in London and Southwold , Suffolk .
Works (selection)
- Marrakech: Roman . Translation by Anke Knefel. Munich: Goldmann, 1995
- Marrakech (1991), made into a film with Kate Winslet , ISBN 3442422965
- Blue miracle . Translation Maria Mill. Munich: Goldmann, 1996 (1993) ISBN 3442425425
- Summer in Gaglow . Translation of Karin Kersten. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1998 ISBN 3455020569
- Wildland . Translation of Chris Hirte. Berlin: Ullstein, 2000 ISBN 3898340260
- The house by the sea . Translation by Anke and Eberhard Kreutzer. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2005 ISBN 3827005442
- Love falls: novel . Translation by Anke and Eberhard Kreutzer. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2008
- Large cast: Roman . Translation by Anke and Eberhard Kreutzer. Berlin: Bloomsbury Berlin, 2012
- My year with Mr Mac . Translation by Anke and Eberhard Kreutzer. Berlin Verlag, Munich - Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-8270-1268-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Esther Freud in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review of Das Haus am Meer on Deutschlandfunk from July 25, 2005
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freud, Esther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |