Lisa Saint Aubin de Teran

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Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán (born October 2, 1953 in London ; full name Lisa Gioconda Saint Aubin de Téran, born Lisa Gioconda Saint Aubin ) is a British travel journalist and author .

Life

Her father was an academic from British Guiana , her mother is from England ; both parents were married four times each. At the age of 16, Lisa met the Venezuelan revolutionary and noble landowner Jaime de Terán, who was twice her age, in London , married him and went with him to Venezuela, where she managed his coffee plantation in the Andes , which is the size Scotland had. She stayed in Venezuela for seven years. On her return she married the poet George Macbeth, with whom she lived in Norfolk . In 1982 she wrote her first novel Keepers of the House , which won the British Somerset Maugham Award . With Slow Train to Milan she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . After separating from Macbeth, she lived in Italy. She moved to Venice in 1986 with her third husband, the painter Robbie Duff Scott .

Today Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán is an internationally acclaimed author. Many of her works have an autobiographical background. She has three children, one from each marriage, and a grandson, and lives in Amsterdam with her partner, the Dutch cameraman Mees Van Deth . They run a film company together and founded the "Terán Foundation" in Mozambique .

Several of her works have been translated into German by Ebba D. Drolshagen . They were published by Insel Verlag , Suhrkamp and Hoffmann and Campe .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photos in the National Portrait Gallery , accessed May 15, 2012
  2. Portrait (English), accessed on May 17, 2012