Lisa Saint Aubin de Teran

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 .

Works

• 1982: Keepers of the House. Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 0-224-02001-3 (in the US as The Long Way Home )
  • Keeper of the house. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen . Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-16762-5
• 1983: The Slow Train to Milan. Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 0224020773
  • The train to Milan. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-07689-0
• 1985: The High Place. Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 0224028138
• 1985: The Tiger. Franklin Watts, London, ISBN 0531097064
• 1989: Off the Rails. Memoirs of a Train Addict. Bloomsbury, London, ISBN 0747500118
• 1989: The Marble Mountain and Other Stories. Jonathan Cape, London, ISBN 022402597X
  • The marble mountain and other stories. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-39281-6
• 1990: Joanna. Virago, London, ISBN 1853811580
  • Joanna. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-458-16548-7
• 1992: Nocturne. Hamish Hamilton, London, ISBN 0241131480
• 1992: Venice: The Four Seasons. Clarkson Potter, New York, ISBN 0517589591
  • Venice. The four Seasons. Together with Mick Lindberg. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-16759-5
• 1995: A Valley in Italy. Harper Perennial, New York, ISBN 0060926198
  • A house in Italy. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-458-34217-6
• 1997: The Hacienda: My Venezuelan Years. Virago, London, ISBN 1860492770
  • Trapped in a foreign place. My years in Venezuela. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-07690-4
• 1998: The Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams. Virago, London, ISBN 186049417X (as editor)
• 1999: The Palace. Ecco Press, New York, ISBN 0880016620
  • The palace. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-39684-6
• 2002: Memory Maps. Virago, London, ISBN 1860499309
• 2005: Otto. Virago, London, ISBN 1860497578
  • Code name Otto. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-345817340-3
• 2009: Mozambique Mysteries. Virago, London, ISBN 978-1844083008

Web links

• Portrait at Suhrkamp-Verlag
• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
• Biographical Notes (English)

Individual evidence

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