Lesley Blanch

Lesley Blanch ( born June 6, 1904 in Chiswick, London; † 6 May 2007 Menton, France) was an English writer.

Life

Lesley Blanch had studied at the Slade and painting during her life almost traveled the whole world. Her essays, articles and travel reports have been published in many UK magazines, including Vogue Britain (1937-1944), The Observer and The New Statesman. Your personal impressions, especially from the Soviet Union, she has described in the autobiographical fragments Journey into the Mind's Eye.

Between 1930 and 1941 Blanch was married to the Englishman Robert Alan Wimberley Bicknell and 1945-1962 with the French author Romain Gary.

In 1971, she summed up her travel experiences through Oman, Afghanistan, Egypt, the Gulf States to Uzbekistan, along with Eve Arnold, in a series of articles for the Sunday Times.

In 2001 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire, in 2004 the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Publications

  • The Wilder Shores of Love, 1954 German edition. They followed their star. Women's lives in the Orient. Wolfgang Kruger Verlag 1955
  • Around The World in 80 Dishes ' ​​( cookbook ), 1955
  • The Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson Letters of (edited and introduction by LB ), 1957
  • The Sabres of Paradise: Conquest and Vengeance in the Caucasus, 1960
  • Under A Lilac- Bleeding Star, 1963
  • The Nine Tiger Man, 1965
  • Journey Into The Mind's Eye ( Fragments of an Autobiography ), 1968
  • Pavilions of the Heart, 1974
  • Farah, Shahbanou Of Iran, 1978
  • Pierre Loti: Travels with the Legendary Traveller, 1983
  • From Wilder Shores ( cookbook ), 1989
  • Romain, Un regard particulier, 1998
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