Julia Blackburn wurde 1948 als einziges Kind des Dichters Thomas Blackburn und der Malerin Rosalie de Meric in London geboren. Neben ihren Memoiren, die unter anderem auf der Shortlist des Ondaatje-Preises standen, hat sie Romane geschrieben, für die sie bereits zweimal den Orange-Prize und 2017 den New-Angle-Prize erhielt. Sie hat zwei Kinder und lebt in Suffolk und Italien.
26 Ebooks von Julia Blackburn
Julia Blackburn: Des Kaisers letzte Insel
Die letzten sechs Jahre seines Lebens residierte Napoleon Bonaparte, einst Herrscher eines Weltreiches, in einem verfallenen Bauernhof auf Sankt Helena, einer unzugänglichen, sturmumtosten, struppige …
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Julia Blackburn: Goyas Geister
Ein berühmter Mann, Hofmaler des spanischen Königs, hat Angst. Er steht auf der Schwelle des eigenen Hauses und zögert. Lange ist er fort gewesen. Er fürchtet sich vor den ersten Worten seiner Frau, …
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Julia Blackburn: Emperor’s Last Island
The Emperor’s Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have accumulated around Napoleo …
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Ben Gijsemans: Hubert
Hubert is a solitary man who shapes his life by going to museums. He talks to few people and only about museums and art. When his neighbour downstairs, a lonely woman, tries to seduce him, he doesn’t …
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Julia Blackburn: Daisy Bates in the Desert
In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years. In Daisy Bates in the Desert …
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Julia Blackburn: Old Man Goya
In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the rem …
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Julia Blackburn: With Billie
‚This is a raw, true book that evokes not just the life of the great singer Billie Holiday but an entire jazz era….‘ Mail on Sunday Julia Blackburn’s brilliant and haunting book is a life of Billie …
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Julia Blackburn: Three of Us
Winner of the J. R. Ackerley Award This is the story of three people: Julia Blackburn, her father Thomas and her mother Rosalie. Thomas was a poet and an alcoholic, who for many years was addicted to …
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Julia Blackburn: My Animals and Other Family
In these five stories Julia Blackburn recalls the significant animals in her life and in so doing gives us a sidelong glance at the human members of her family, her painter mother and poet father. Fi …
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Julia Blackburn: Thin Paths
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 19 …
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Julia Blackburn: Threads
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seri …
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Julia Blackburn: Charles Waterton 1782-1865
Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccent …
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Julia Blackburn: Book Of Colour
‚Wandering through dreams and nightmares from Praslin Islands to Mauritius and finally to England, the author unfolds the troubled lives of her forbears, cursed by racial prejudice, sexual inhibition …
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Julia Blackburn: Leper’s Companions
To escape from her own sadness, a woman finds refuge in a past time. In a village by the sea she watches the lives of the inhabitants unfold around her. But the year is now 1410 and this is a world o …
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Julia Blackburn: Time Song
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE A journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to Holland T …
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Julia Blackburn: The Woman Who Always Loved Picasso
Marie-Thérèse Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems – as simple and direct as quick sketches – use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and …
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Julia Blackburn: Daisy Bates in der Wüste
In langem schwarzem Rock, Bluse, Krawatte und Hut sitzt Daisy Bates auf einem Stuhl in der Wüste. Sie sieht finster aus, Furcht einflößend, stolz, traurig, ernst, sehr schön und in jeder Hinsicht so …
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Julia Blackburn: Dreaming the Karoo
A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam – a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate o …
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€14.99
