Gillian Rubinstein

Gillian Rubinstein (born August 29, 1942 in Great Britain ) is an English author . She is also known by the pen name Lian Hearn .

biography

Young Gillian's father died in 1950. After a few years, her mother remarried and Rubinstein went to Nigeria with her family . She later returned to the UK to study modern languages ​​at Oxford . After graduating, she worked mostly as a freelance film critic and editor in London before settling down as a writer with her husband Philip in Oxford. In the next few years she was best known for her children's books and plays.

Rubinstein wrote several books for children and young people - the first of which was awarded several prizes - but also picture books. Her main interest lay in Asian mythology and culture - but above all in Japan and the Japanese language . So she learned the latter and toured the land of the rising sun countless times. It was on one of these trips that the idea for the series Der Clan der Otori , which Rubinstein published under the pseudonym Lian Hearn , was born. On March 16, 2005, she completed the manuscript of the third volume.

To prevent her first adult books from being compared with her previous works, she hid behind this pseudonym. The name originated from the nickname of her childhood (the last letters of Gillian) and the family name of Lafcadio Hearn , a British-Greek writer who lived in Japan at the end of the 19th century.

In 1973 she emigrated to Australia with her husband . Since 1981 she has lived with him and their three children in Goolwa , South Australia .

When in June 2002 - due to the success in many countries - a film adaptation of The Clan of Otori was discussed, she revealed the secret of the authorship. The first volume, Das Schwert in der Stille , won the German Youth Literature Prize in 2004 .

Rubinstein's literary role models include Ray Bradbury and Robert Louis Stevenson in particular .

Works

• 1986: Space Demons
• 1988: Answers to Brut, Beyond the Labyrinth, Melanie and the Night Animal, Before Dawn, After Dark
• 1989: Sky Maze
• 1990: Flashback
• 1991: At Ardilla
• 1992: Galax Arena
• 1994: Foxspell
• 1995: Jake and Pete
• 1996: Shinkei, Witch Music, Annie's Brother's Suit
• 1997: Under the Cat's Eye, Jake and Pete and the Stray Dogs
• 1998: Pure Chance
• 1999: The Mermaid of Bondi Beach, Jake and Pete and the Catcrowbats
• 2000: Jake and Pete and the Magpie's Wedding
• 2001: Terra-Farma
• 2002: The Whale's Child sik

As Lian Hearn

Tales of the Otori - The Otori clan

• 2002: Across the Nightingale Floor - The Sword in Silence, ISBN 978-3551581068
• 2004: Grass for His Pillow - The Path in the Snow, ISBN 978-3551581105
• 2005: Brilliance of the Moon , ISBN 978-3551581112
• 2006: The Harsh Cry of the Heron - The Call of the Heron, ISBN 978-3551581600
• 2007: Heaven's Net is Wide - Prequel, ISBN 978-3551581716

Blossoms And Shadows  (Hachette Australia, 2010)

The Shikanoko Series (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, US, 2016).

• 1: Emperor of the Eight Islands (April 2016)
• 2: Autumn Princess, Dragon Child (June 2016)
• 3: Lord of the Darkwood (August 2016)
• 4: The Tengu's Game of Go (September 2016)

Web links

• Literature by and about Gillian Rubinstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gillian Rubinstein in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Otori - The sword in the silence
• Official website (English)