Lucinda Riley

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Lucinda Riley (born February 16, 1965 as Lucinda Edmonds in Lisburn , Northern Ireland , † June 11, 2021 ) was a Northern Irish writer .

Life

Riley spent the first six years of her life in the village of Dumbeg near Belfast in Northern Ireland before the family moved to England. She worked as a theater and television actress at a young age . After contracting glandular fever in her early twenties , she began writing. Her first novel Lovers and Players was published by Simon & Schuster in 1992.

Under her maiden name Lucinda Edmonds, she initially published seven other novels. In 2013 she began writing the Seven Sisters series , which Goldmann Verlag provided for translation into German .

Riley lived with her husband and four children in Norfolk , east England, and in their home in Provence , France .

She died on June 11, 2021 after suffering from cancer for four years.

Works (selection)

as Lucinda Edmonds

  • 1992: Lovers and Players. Simon & Schuster
  • 1993: Hidden beauty
  • 1994: Enchanted
  • 1997: Losing you
  • 1998: Playing with fire (German game with fire . 2001)

as Lucinda Edmonds, reissued as Lucinda Riley

  • 1995: Not quite an angel (as Lucinda Riley: English The Angel Tree / dt. The angel tree ). Translation by Sonja Hauser and Ursula Wulfekamp. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-48135-4
  • 1996: Aria (as Lucinda Riley: English The Italian Girl / German The Italian Girl ). Translation by Sonja Hauser. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-48009-8
  • 2000: Seeing double (as Lucinda Riley: The Love Letter in English / The forbidden love letter in German ). Translation by Ursula Wulfekamp. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-442-48406-5

as Lucinda Riley

Seven sisters series

  • 2014: The Seven Sisters (dt. The Seven Sisters , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2015)
  • 2015: The Storm Sister (dt. The storm sister , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2015)
  • 2016: The Shadow Sister (dt. The shadow sister , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2016)
  • 2017: The Pearl Sister (dt. The beads sister , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2017)
  • 2018: The Moon Sister (dt. The moon sister , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2018)
  • 2019: The Sun Sister (dt. The sun sister , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2019)
  • 2021: The Lost Sister (dt. The missing sister , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2021)

Other

  • 2010: Hothouse Flower (German: The Orchid House . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2010)
  • 2011: The girl on the cliff (German: The girl on the cliffs. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2012)
  • 2012: The Light Behind the Window (Ger. Der Lavendelgarten. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2013)
  • 2013: The Midnight Rose (German: Die Mitternachtsrose , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014)
  • 2014: The Angel Tree (German: Der Engelsbaum , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014)
  • 2014: The Italian Girl (German: The Italian Girl , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2014)
  • 2016: Helena's Secret (German Helena's Secret , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2016)
  • 2017: The Love Letter (German: The forbidden love letter , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2017)
  • 2019: The Butterfly Room (dt. The Butterfly Room , Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author of the Week, Lucinda Riley, Feb. 15, February 15 , 2021, accessed June 11, 2021 .
  2. ↑ Lucinda Riley: My birthday today and the kids made me two lovely cakes. In: Facebook. February 16, 2014, accessed June 13, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b Stephanie Bell, How Ulster-born author Lucinda Riley, who vowed to shun Hollywood, became the toast of LA after signing huge deal to film her novels for TV , Belfast Telegraph , July 14, 2016
  4. ↑ Appeared in The Story of the treasure seekers at 15 and was 48 in July 2016, see How Ulster-born author Lucinda Riley, who vowed to shun Hollywood, became the toast of LA after signing huge deal to film her novels for TV . Belfast Telegraph, July 14, 2016 and also http://lucindariley.co.uk/about-lucinda/
  5. ↑ Zeven Zussen author Lucinda Riley (55) overleden: 'Ze straalde altijd fielde uit'. June 11, 2021, accessed June 11, 2021 (Dutch).
  6. ↑ Ciara McDonnell: Lucinda Riley, author of the Seven Sisters series and ex West Cork resident, dies. In: irishexaminer.com. June 11, 2021, accessed June 12, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Elmo Tanner: Paperback bestseller: In a nightgown on the cliffs. In: Spiegel-Online, May 21, 2012 (on the book Das Mädchen auf den Klippen ).
  8. ↑ Heloise Wood: Author Lucinda Riley dies after four-year cancer battle . In: thebookseller. June 11, 2021.
  9. ↑ Lucinda Riley at belletristik-couch.de

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personal data
SURNAME Riley, Lucinda
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edmonds, Lucinda (maiden name, pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish-British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lisburn , Northern Ireland
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 2021