I have to laugh over Liane de Pougy because for sure the reason I recognise this name is because it turns up in St. I've read these writers and loved them over my whole life and there are another two - Romain Brooks, and Liane de Pougy - that I'm 'aware of'. Aubin de Terán notes in her introduction:Īs disparate as the entries may seem at first sight, coming from five different continents and spanning nearly four hundred years, they are all about or by women who have put their lives on the line together with their prose.Īnd what a stunning collection: out of the twenty-seven entries I am pleased to say I am familiar with eleven of them. So, there are three complete short stories, in this collection and twenty-four extracts from novels, autobiographies, memoirs, notebooks, and essays, in other words a great range of writing, all by women and, as the editor Lisa St. 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. Aubin de Terán has three children, including a daughter by her first husband, Iseult Teran, who is also a novelist. Her work includes novels, memoirs, poetry, and short-story collections. She received the Eric Gregory for Poetry in 1983. Her second novel, The Slow Train to Milan, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. This novel was the recipient of the Somerset Maugham Award. Aubin de Terán published her first novel, Keepers of the House. After the marriage failed, she married painter Robbie Duff Scott and moved to Umbria, Italy. Her second husband was the Scottish poet and novelist George MacBeth. 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. She attended the James Allen's Girls' School. Aubin de Terán was born Lisa Rynveld in South London.
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