Edward St. Abin (born January 14, 1960 , London , 
UK ) - English writer and journalist. He is the author of eight novels. In 2006, his novel Mother's Milk was nominated for the Booker Award .
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Personal life
Saint Aubin was born in London and grew up in France, where his family had a home [2] . His father, Roger, half Scottish by birth, a former soldier, and then a surgeon. His mother, Lorna, came from a wealthy American family living in Cincinnati. St. Aubin described an unhappy childhood in which he was repeatedly raped by his father at the age of five to eight years with the complicity of his mother [3] .
He attended Westminster School and in 1979 entered the Kable College, Oxford , where he studied English language and literature. By this time he was already a heroin addict. At the age of twenty-five, St. Aubin sought psychotherapeutic help; he later became a professional writer.
Edward St. Aubin has two children and lives in London. He was married to the writer Nikola Schulman ( en: Nicola Shulman ) for some time.
Patrick Melrose Series
- No big deal, 1992
- Bad news 1992
- Timid Hope, 1994
- Mother's Milk, 2005
- Summing up, 2012
Awards and honors
- 1992 - Betty Trask Prize , winner - novel Do not think
- 1998 - The Fiction Keeper Award, novel nominated On the Edge
- 2006 - Booker Prize nominated Mother's Milk novel
- 2007 - Femina Etranger Grand Prix , winner - Mother's Milk novel
- 2007 - Literature Prize “The South Coast Show”, winner - the novel Mother's Milk
- 2014 - Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, winner - the novel Lost for words
Publications
- Never Mind. - Picador USA, 1992. - ISBN 9781447202936 .
- Bad News. - Picador USA, 1992. - ISBN 9781447202950 .
- Some Hope. - Heinemann, 1994.
- On The Edge. - Chatto & Windus, 1998. - ISBN 978-1447253563 .
- A Clue to the Exit. - Chatto & Windus, 2000. - ISBN 0701169605 .
- Some Hope: A Trilogy . - Grove Press, Open City Books, 2003. - ISBN 1890447366 .
- Mother's Milk . - Grove Press, Open City Books, 2005. - ISBN 978-1890447403 .
- At Last . - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. - ISBN 978-0374298890 .
- Lost for Words. - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. - ISBN 9780374280291 .
- Dunbar. - Hogarth Press, 2017. - ISBN 9781101904282 .
Notes
- ↑ Discogs - 2000.
- ↑ Brown, Mick . How writing helped Edward St Aubyn exorcise his demons , The Daily Telegraph (May 2, 2014). The appeal date is May 4, 2014.
- ↑ Moss, Stephen . 'Edward St Aubyn:' Writing is horrible , The Guardian (17 August 2011). The appeal date is May 4, 2014.
Bibliography
- Parker, Ian. Inheritance: how Edward St. Aubyn made literature out of a poisoned legacy (English) // The New Yorker : journal. - Condé Nast , 2014. - 2 June ( vol. 90 , no. 15 ). - P. 42-55 .
Links
- Guardian interview
- Independent article
- "Edward St. Aubin and the Mystery of Consciousness" (The Telegraph)
- Biography from the Berlin International Literary Festival