Lisa Lake

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Lisa See (2012)

Lisa See (born February 18, 1955 in Paris , France ) is an American writer and journalist .

Life

Lisa See was born in Paris in 1955 to American parents. Her mother is the writer Carolyn See . She spent most of her childhood in Los Angeles , where she spent a lot of time in Chinatown with her grandparents. In 1979 she graduated from Loyola Marymount University with a bachelor's degree . From 1983 to 1996 she was a correspondent for the US West Coast for the industry magazine Publishers Weekly . She also wrote for magazines such as Vogue , Self and More . As a curator , she oversaw several exhibitions dealing with intercultural relations between China and the USA .

See debuted as a writer with "On Gold Mountain" in 1995. The story, which is semi-biographically based on her great-grandfather Fong See, became an international bestseller and marked Lisa See's breakthrough as an author. She received several awards including the New York Times Notable Book Award . The book appeared the following year after a translation by Thomas Pfeiffer and Helmut Dierlamm with the German title Auf dem golden Berg. The story of a Chinese family in the Munich publishing house Droemer Knaur . For her second novel, published in 1997, she received a nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award . The book was published in Germany under the title “Die Rote Klinge” as well as under the title “In a network of lotus flowers”.

After a production by Wayne Wang and starring Li Bingbing , Jun Ji-hyun , Vivian Wu and Hugh Jackman, the film adaptation of See's fifth novel of the same name was released in 2011 with The Silk Fan .

In 2001 Lisa See was named "National Woman of the Year" by the Organization of Chinese-American Women, and in autumn 2003 she received the "Chinese American Museum's History Makers Award". She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two sons .

Works

  • On Gold Mountain: The One Hundred Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995),
    • On the golden mountain. The story of a Chinese family , Munich 1996, Droemer Knaur, ISBN 3-426-60864-2
  • Flower Net (1997)
  • The Interior (1999)
  • Dragon Bones (2003)
  • Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2005)
  • Peony in Love (2007)
  • Shanghai Girls (2009)
  • Dreams of Joy (2011)
  • China Dolls (2014)
  • The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane (2017)

literature

Web links

Commons : Lisa See  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files