Lisa St Aubin de Terán

Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán ( born October 2, 1953 in London, full name Lisa Gioconda Saint Aubin de Teran, who was born as Lisa Gioconda Saint Aubin ) is a British travel writer and author.

Life

Her father was an academician from British Guiana and her mother is from England; both parents were ever married four times. At the age of 16 years, Lisa met in London the Venezuelan revolutionary and aristocratic landowners Jaime de Terán, who was twice her age, married him and went with him to Venezuela, where she led its coffee plantation in the Andes, the size of the Scotland had. Seven years they remained in Venezuela. Upon her return she married the poet George Macbeth, with whom she lived in Norfolk. In 1982 she wrote her first novel, Keepers of the House, winning the British Somerset Maugham Award. With Slow Train to Milan, she won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. After her separation from Macbeth, she lived in Italy. With her ​​third husband, the painter Robbie Duff Scott, she moved to Venice in 1986.

Today Lisa Saint Aubin de Terán is an internationally acclaimed author. Many of her works have an autobiographical background. She has three children, one each from each marriage, and a grandson, and lives with her partner, the Dutch cameraman Mees Van Deth, in Amsterdam. They jointly operate a film company and founded in Mozambique " Terán Foundation. "

Several of her works were translated into German by Ebba D. Drolshagen. They were published by Suhrkamp and Hoffmann und Campe Verlag in the island.

Works

  • The train to Milan. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-455-07689-0
  • The Marble Mountain and other stories. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-518-39281-6
  • Joanna. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Island, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-458-16548-7
  • Venice. The four seasons. Along with Mick Lindberg. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Island, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-16759-5
  • A house in Italy. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Island, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-458-34217-6
  • Trapped in a strange land. My years in Venezuela. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-455-07690-4
  • The palace. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-39684-6
  • Code name Otto. Translated by Ebba D. Drolshagen. Island, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-345817340-3
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