Susie Boyt
Susie Boyt (born January 1969 in London ) is a British writer.
Life
Susie Boyt is the youngest of five children of the artist Suzy Boyt and of four who she had together with the artist Lucian Freud , a grandson of Sigmund Freud . Lucian Freud and Boyt's mother did not live together. Fourteen children of Lucian Freud are known, so Susie Boyt has ten half-siblings from this family. Not all of the children were models for him, but everyone he had with Suzy Boyt, including Susie Boyt.
After attending the Channing School for Girls and the Camden School for Girls, she studied English at St Catherine's College in Oxford (BA 1992). After a break, she wrote a master's thesis on Anglo-American literary relations at University College London and studied Henry James and John Berryman .
In 1995 she published her first novel, The Normal Man . In 2004 she declared Anne Tyler one of her role models, in 2012 she wrote under the influence of the novels of Elizabeth Taylor .
Boyt has a column in the Financial Times' features section .
Boyt is married to the film producer Tom Astor. You have two children.
Works
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The Normal Man . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995
- Frosting and false love . Translation of Beate Beheim-Schwarzbach. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1996
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The Characters of Love . London: Phoenix, 1996
- Lessons of Longing . Translation of Beate Beheim-Schwarzbach. Munich: Droemer Knaur, 1998
- The Last Hope of Girls . London: Review, 2001
- Only human . London: Review, 2004
- My Judy Garland Life . London: Virago, 2008
- The Small Hours . Bath: Windsor, 2012
- Love & fame . London: Virago, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Susie Boyt in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Susie Boyt in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Susie Boyt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Christie Hickman: Susie Boyt: Reasons to be cheerful , in: The Independent, July 8, 2004
- Lucy Scholes: Susie Boyt: I'm very Freudian in the way I look at things , in: The Guardian, October 28, 2012
- Zoë Apostolides: Love & Fame by Susie Boyt - a different stage , review, in: Financial Times, November 10, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ List see Freud (family)
- ^ Geordie Greig: Breakfast with Lucian Freud . Translation by Matthias Fienbork. Munich: Nagel & Kimche 2014. ISBN 978-3-312-00609-0 , p. 240
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boyt, Susie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boyt-Astor, Susie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |