Lee Langley
Lee Langley (* 1932 in Calcutta , India ) is a British novelist.
Life
After her 1987 first novel, Changes of Adress , which largely describes her childhood in India, Langley has written a trilogy with themes from India and then other novels. She wrote scripts for films and worked on adaptations of texts for television plays. Langley also wrote on travel and art topics for magazines and newspapers.
Langley lives in Richmond, London .
Work (selection)
- The Dying Art: A Novel . Heinemann, London 1983, ISBN 0-434-40264-8 .
- Changes of address. Novel. 1987.
- Persistent rumors. Novel. 1992.
- A house in Pondicherry . Novel. 1995.
- Distant Music. Novel. Chatto & Windus, London 2001. In the USA: Milkweed Editions, Milwaukee, Minnesota, USA 2003, ISBN 1-571310401 .
- Conversation on the Quai Voltaire. Novel dealing with the life of Dominique Vivant Denon . 2006.
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Butterfly's Shadow. Novel, 2010 based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly .
- German: Madame Butterfly's shadow. C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-58017-2 .
- theatre
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Baggage: A Comedy . French, London / New York 1977, ISBN 0-573-11036-0 .
- To a new one . Rowohlt Theater Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, DNB 770135641 .
- watch TV
- Adaptation for television: Graham Greene : The Tenth Man. 1988; German: The tenth man
- dito. Short stories by Rumer Godden
- ditto: Barbara Taylor Bradford : A Woman of Substance. 1984, German: Life's bitter sweetness.
- ditto: Rosamunde Pilcher : September. 2006
Web links
- Literature by and about Lee Langley in the catalog of the German National Library
- Catalog raisonné
- Lee Langley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Langley, Lee |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Calcutta , India |