Louisa Young

Louisa Young ( born 1960 ), also known by her pen name Zizou Corder, is a British writer.

Life

Young is the daughter of the author Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet. After studying history at Cambridge she worked as a freelance journalist and wrote for magazines. With "The Great Task of Happiness " Young made ​​his debut in 1995. Wrote the biography of her grandmother Kathleen Scott, the sculptor and widow of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who later Louisa's grandfather Edward Hilton Young married.

You still wrote an adventure trilogy ( Baby Love, 1997; Desiring Cairo, 1999; Tree of Pearls, 2000) and a cultural history of the heart ( The Book of the Heart, 2002). She writes a regular contributor to The Guardian.

Her first children's book Lionboy she wrote under the pen name Zizou Corder together with her daughter Isabel Adomakoh. It stems from the bedtime stories for Isabel and was released in 2003 as the first book of a trilogy, and translated into 30 languages. Steven Spielberg has acquired the film rights. Louisa and Isabel live in London together with the lizard Zizou.

Works

  • Baby Love, 1997
  • The Great Task of Happiness, 1996
  • Desiring Cairo, 1999
  • The Book of the Heart, 2002
  • Lionboy, 2003 Lionboy: The Abduction. Translated from English by Sophie Zeitz. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-62263-9
  • Lionboy: The Hunt. Translated from English by Sophie Zeitz. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-423-62285-1
  • Lionboy: The truth. Translated from English by Sophie Zeitz. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-62306-3
  • Lee Raven. Translated from English by Sophie Zeitz. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-446-23307-2
  • Halo - daughter of freedom: Under centaurs and humans. Translated from English by Karl Heinz Dürr and Cornelia Stoll. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-4462-3889-3
  • One thing I want to tell you. Translated from English by Claudia Feldmann. List Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3471350478
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