Gillian Rubinstein

Gillian Rubinstein ( born August 29, 1942 in the UK ) is an English author. She is also known under the pseudonym Lian Hearn.

Biography

The father of the young Gillian died in 1950. After a few years her mother remarried and Rubinstein went with her family to Nigeria. She later returned to the UK to study modern languages ​​at Oxford. After graduation, she worked mostly as a freelance film critic and editor in London before settling down with her husband Philip in Oxford as a writer. In the next few years, she was best known for her children's books and plays.

Rubinstein has written several children 's books - the first of which have already been awarded several prizes - but also picture books. My main interest was in the Asian mythology and culture - but especially in Japan and the Japanese language. So she learned the latter also, and traveled the country of the Rising Sun countless times. On one of these trips, the idea for the series of The Clan of the Otori, which published Rubinstein under the pseudonym Lian Hearn was born. On 16 March 2005 she completed the manuscript of which the third volume.

In order to prevent their first books are compared for adults with their previous work, they hid behind this pseudonym. The name originated from the nickname of her childhood ( the last letter of Gillian ) and the family name of Lafcadio Hearn, a British- Greek writer who lived in the late 19th century Japan.

In 1973, she emigrated with her husband to Australia. Since 1981 she lives with him and their three children in Goolwa, South Australia.

When in June 2002 - due to the success in many countries - was a film version of The Clan of the Otori in the conversation, she disclosed the secret of the authorship. The first volume of The Sword in the silence won the 2004 German Youth Literature Prize.

Among her literary models Rubinstein counts especially Ray Bradbury and Robert Louis Stevenson.

Works

As Lian Hearn

Cycle of the Otori Clan

  • 2002: The Sword in the silence ( Across the Nightingale Floor), ISBN 978-3551581068
  • 2004: The path in the snow (Grass for His Pillow), ISBN 978-3551581105
  • 2005: The splendor of the moon ( Brilliance of the Moon ), ISBN 978-3551581112
  • 2006: The cry of the heron (The Harsh Cry of the Heron), ISBN 978-3551581600
  • 2007: The vastness of the sky ( Heaven's Net is Wide ) - prequel, ISBN 978-3551581716
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