Louisa Young
Louisa Young (* 1960 ), also known by her pseudonym Zizou Corder , is a British writer .
Life
Young is the daughter of author Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet . After studying history at Cambridge , she worked as a freelance journalist for magazines. Young made her debut with "The Great Task of Happiness" in 1995. She wrote the biography of her grandmother Kathleen Scott , the sculptor and widow of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott , who later married Louisa's grandfather Edward Hilton Young .
She also wrote an adventure trilogy (Baby Love, 1997; Desiring Cairo, 1999; Tree of Pearls, 2000) and a cultural history of the heart (The Book of the Heart, 2002). She is a regular contributor to The Guardian .
She wrote her first children's book Lionboy under the pseudonym Zizou Corder together with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh. It originated from the bedtime stories for Isabel and was published in 2003 as the first book in a trilogy and translated into 30 languages. Steven Spielberg has acquired the film rights. Louisa and Isabel live in London with the lizard Zizou.
Works
- Baby Love , 1997
- The Great Task of Happiness , 1996
- Desiring Cairo , 1999
- The Book of the Heart , 2002
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Lionboy , 2003
- Lionboy: The kidnapping . Translated from the English by Sophie Zeitz. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-62263-9
- Lionboy: The hunt . Translated from the English by Sophie Zeitz. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-62285-1
- Lionboy: The truth . Translated from the English by Sophie Zeitz. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-62306-3
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Lee Raven, Boy Thief . 2008
- Lee Raven . Translated from the English by Sophie Zeitz. Carl Hanser Verlag , Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23307-2
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Halo . 2010
- Halo - Daughter of Freedom: Among centaurs and humans . Translated from the English by Karlheinz Dürr and Cornelia Stoll. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-4462-3889-3
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My Dear I Wanted to Tell You . 2011
- I want to tell you one more thing . Translated from the English by Claudia Feldmann. List Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3471350478
Web links
- Literature by and about Louisa Young in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Young, Louisa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Corder, Zizou (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |