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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

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Born: October 01 1953

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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán was born Lisa Rynveld in South London. She attended the James Allen's Girls' School. She married a Venezuelan landowner, Jaime Terán in 1971, at the age of 17, and became a farmer of sugar cane, avocados, pears, and sheep from 1972-1978.

Her second husband was the Scottish poet and novelist George MacBeth. After the marriage failed, she married painter Robbie Duff Scott and moved to Umbria, Italy.

In 1982, St. Aubin de Terán published her first novel, Keepers of the House. This novel was the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award. Her second novel, The Slow Train to Milan, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She received the Eric Gregory for Poetry in 1983. Her work includes novels, memoirs, poetry, and short-story collections.

St. Aubin de Terán has three children, including a daughter by her first husband, Iseult Teran, who is also a novelist.

She currently lives in Amsterdam with her partner Mees Van Deth, where she runs a film company and has set up the Terán Foundation in Mozambique.

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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

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Books from Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

Off the rails: memoirs of a train addict

Mozambique Mysteries

Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection

Otto

The Slow Train to Milan

Granta 5: The Modern Common Wind

De mooiste treinreizen van de wereld

Great Railway Journeys

Otto

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New Woman, New Fiction

The Hacienda

Southpaw

The Slow Train to Milan

Keepers Of The House

The Tiger

Joanna

The Palace

Memory Maps

Diamante Jim