Barbara Chase-Riboud

Barbara Chase - Riboud ( born June 26, 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) is an American author, illustrator and sculptor.

Life and work

Chase - Riboud studied at Temple University and Yale University, where in 1960 his Master. Then she went to Paris and married French photographer Marc Riboud, had two sons and traveled a lot. After the divorce in 1981 she married Sergio Tosi.

She is a member of the international writers' association PEN and lives in Paris, Capri and in Rome.

Barbara Chase - Riboud published the historical novel Valide, which was published in 1988 under the title Serail ISBN 9783612271600 in the German language area. Other well-known novels of the author are the echo of the lion, Hamburg 1997 ISBN 3492224415 and Free, free as a bird - a Southern novel, 1996 ISBN 9,783,203,760,001th

Group Exhibitions

Awards

  • 2005 American Library Association's Black Caucus Award
  • 1999 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
  • 1988 Carl Sandburg Prize for poetry
  • 1979 Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for the best American author
  • 1957 John Hay Whitney Foundation study
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