Michael de Larrabeiti

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Michael de Larrabeiti [ læɹɐˈbiːti ] (born August 18, 1934 in Lambeth , London , † April 18, 2008 in Oxford ) was a British writer and journalist .

The son of an Irish mother and a Basque father, one of five children, attended Clapham Central Secondary School and did not get into higher education because of poor grades. He left school at 16 and worked as a librarian, but always strived to be able to study. From 1952 he began to get closer to this goal with lessons at Battersea Polytechnic . He earned his living as a tourist guide, as a cameraman, as an English teacher in Casablanca , photographer and projectionist. At Trinity College in Dublin he finally studied English and French from 1961 to 1965; he got a scholarship at the École normal supérieure in Paris , where he lived from 1965 to 1966. He did not finish the next course at Keble College in Oxford because it was more important to him to write books. In addition to his literary work, he worked as a freelance media writer in film and travel journalism.

One of his best-known works is the Borribles trilogy, a controversial youth novel series about fabulous beings who lead a life on the edge of modern society. The series has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish.

Borribles

  • The Borribles (1976, Eng. Off to the Great Rumbeljagd!)
  • The Borribles Go for Broke (1981, Eng. In the labyrinth of the Wendels)
  • The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis (1986)
  • The Borribles. The trilogy in one volume , current German edition ISBN 3-608-93787-0

Other works

  • The Redwater Raid (1972), as Nathan Lestrange
  • A Rose Beyond the Thames (1978)
  • The Bunce (1980)
  • Full Marks (1981)
  • Jeeno, Heloise and Igamor, the Long, Long Horse (1983)
  • The Hollywood Takes (1983), German The Mexico Connection , 1998 ISBN 3-502-51656-1
  • Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite (1992)
  • Foxes' Oven (2002)
  • French Leave (2002)
  • Princess Diana's Revenge (2006)
  • Spots of Time: A Memoir (2007)

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personal data
SURNAME Larrabeiti, Michael de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Lambeth , London
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2008
Place of death Oxford