Background
Lucia Graves was born on July 21, 1943, in Devon, England, the United Kingdom, to the famous writer Robert Graves and Beryl Pritchard Graves. She was taken to Mallorca by her parents in 1946, after the end of WW II.
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Graves graduated in Modern Languages from St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
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Graves graduated in Modern Languages from St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
(Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves, was rai...)
Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves, was raised by her parents on the island of Majorca, in postwar Spain. Her beautifully nuanced memoir, already published in England to great acclaim, is a profound meditation on how these three cultures and languages-English, Catalan, and Spanish-have shaped her life and thought.
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Lucia Graves was born on July 21, 1943, in Devon, England, the United Kingdom, to the famous writer Robert Graves and Beryl Pritchard Graves. She was taken to Mallorca by her parents in 1946, after the end of WW II.
Graves studied in Switzerland, England, and Spain, and graduated in Modern Languages from St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
Graves has had a successful career as a literary translator, translating much of the work of her father, the writer Robert Graves, as well as the works of other authors, such as Anais Nin and Katherine Mansfield. In addition to her talks, articles, and reviews, she has written many pop-music lyrics. In 1995 she edited The Complete Short Stories of Robert Graves.
Her first book, A Woman Unknown: Voices from a Spanish life, was published in 1999, in the UK. It has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, Dutch and French and ha also appeared in the USA. Typical of the reviews was this comment in The Times Literary Supplement: ‘This is a book of high literary distinction and extraordinary humanity. One eagerly awaits a sequel.’
Graves is an outstanding writer and translator. Her translations include the worldwide bestsellers The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, The Prisoner of Heaven', and "The Labyrinth of the Spirits", by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and The Columbus Papers. She has translated over 30 volumes.
She is the finalist for the 2012 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award for her translation of Midnight Palace by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
(Lucia Graves, daughter of the poet Robert Graves, was rai...)
1999In 1967 Graves married a Catalan musician and settled in Spain, living mainly in Barcelona. They had three daughters. Lucia currently lives in London with her second husband.
