Michael de Larrabeiti

Michael de Larrabeiti [ læɹɐbi ː ti ] ( 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, visited the Clapham Central Secondary School, and came not for bad grades in higher education. He left school at 16 and worked as a librarian, but always sought after, but to still studying. From 1952 he began to get closer with lessons at Battersea Polytechnic this goal. His living he earned as a guide, as a cinematographer, as an English teacher in Casablanca, photographer and film projectionist. At Trinity College in Dublin, he eventually studied from 1961 to 1965, the subjects English and French; while he got a scholarship to the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, where he lived from 1965 to 1966. The following studies at Keble College, Oxford, he has not finished, because it was more important to him to write books. In addition to his literary career, he worked as a freelance writer for media in the film and travel journalism.

Among his most famous works is the Borribles trilogy, a controversial recorded at the time of their appearance young adult novel series about fable -like beings who lead a life on the fringes of modern society. The series has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Swedish.

Borribles

  • The Borribles (1976, Ger On the Great Rumbeljagd! )
  • The Borribles Go for Broke (1981, dt In the labyrinth of the helix )
  • The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis (1986, Germany The dragnet )
  • The Borribles. The trilogy in one volume, the latest German edition ISBN 3-608-93787-0

Other works

  • 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), The Mexico- German 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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