Esther Tusquets

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Esther Tusquets (born August 30, 1936 in Barcelona ; † July 23, 2012 there ) was a Spanish author.

She grew up in a middle-class environment in Barcelona. After studying philosophy, history and literature in Barcelona and Madrid, she took over the management of the Lumen publishing house from her father at the age of 24 . After initial difficulties, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose brought about the breakthrough. Modern classics such as Rainer Maria Rilke , Walt Whitman , Emily Dickinson , Joyce Carol Oates and AL Kennedy appeared at Lumen . After her father's death, Esther Tusquets sold Lumen to the Bertelsmann group. She continued to determine the publisher's literary program until 2000. Her daughter Milena became her successor at Lumen.

In 1978 Tusquets published her debut novel Aller Sommer Meer in her own publishing house . The story of an erotic love between two women caused a scandal in conservative and Catholic Spain. Numerous novels, essays and children's books followed. In 2003, Suhrkamp published her latest novel Farewell to Don Juan .

Her brother Óscar Tusquets and his wife Beatriz de Moura are managing directors of the Tusquets Editores publishing house .

Publications

  • All summer sea . Wagenbach, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-8031-2436-0 .
  • Farewell to don Juan . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 2003. ISBN 3-518-45520-6 .
  • Seven girls glances at the same landscape. Stories. (Translated from the Spanish by Susanne Detering.) Erata Literaturverlag, Leipzig 2008. ISBN 978-3-86660-055-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Tusquets, Esther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish publisher and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 2012
Place of death Barcelona