La casa de la memoria (Seix Barral Biblioteca breve)

by Lucia Graves

Spanish

Genres: Historical

285 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Lucia Graves was born in England in 1943, but was taken to Mallorca by her parents in 1946, after the end of WWII. She studied in Switzerland, England and Spain, and graduated in Modern Languages from St. Anne’s College, Oxford. In 1967 she 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.

She 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. The Memory House, her first novel, was published in Spain a La Casa de la Memoria (1999).