Michael de larrabeiti biography
- Michael de Larrabeiti (18 August 1934 – 18 April 2008) was an English novelist and travel writer.
- Michael de Larrabeiti was an English novelist and travel writer.
- Michael De Larrabeiti was born on August 18, 1934 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. Michael is known for Jasper Carrott: American Carrott (1985) and Riding.
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Sadly, Michael de Larrabeiti passed away a few months after this interview. You can read my tribute to him and an article about his funeral here.
Above, Michael de Larrabeiti at his Oxfordshire home, 2007.
© Jude Calvert-Toulmin.
Early in 2007 I was conducting research for a chapter in the sequel to my debut novel, MY ADVENTURES IN CYBERSPACE, and googled “princess diana conspiracy forum”. Eventually I found myself on the website of an author called Michael de Larrabeiti.
Michael de Larrabeiti. 1940. Arundel
© Michael de Larrabeiti
Reading the short biography on his site I became intrigued by this man. Like me, he had lived in Clapham, round the corner in distance, albeit 45 years apart in time. He was half Basque and looked Basque, like my daughter Jodie who is a quarter Basque but looks more Basque than English.
Michael de Larrabeiti 1984
© Michael de Larrabeiti
Like me he had worked in the film industry and travelled all over Europe (and for him, beyond.) He was also, like me, a photographer and a writer. But he had achieved far more
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The Borribles Go for Broke
Quando Sydney riceve un messaggio riguardante Sam, il cavallo che aveva aiutato gli Avventurieri nella loro missione a Rumbledonia, la Borrible decide di chiedere aiuto a Chalotte.
Sospettosa, la seconda Borrible decide comunque di aiutare l'amica e, assieme a Bombardone, Bingo, Volgare, il loro nuovo amico Tramonto e Pugno, le due Borrible partono alla ricerca di Sam.
Tra incontri poco piacevoli coi Rimbasbirri, e vagabondi adulti molto simili ai Borrible, i piccoli eroi si ritrovano, loro malgrado, in una nuova avventura che li porterà dritti nel covo dei Bastonatori.
A parte la copertina che è uno spoiler enorme (e non dico perché), ho trovato la lettura di questo libro molto piacevole. Devo dire che all'inizio non ero molto sicura, in quanto era tutto molto lento e poco avventuroso. Ma, da un certo punto in poi, la storia ingrana davvero e non ci si stacca dalle pagine!
Forse ho trovato più piacevole il primo volume, per via della "novità" che i personaggi rappresentavano per me, ma ci sono certi colpi di sce
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Michael de Larrabeiti
English novelist, travel writer (1934–2008)
Michael de Larrabeiti (18 August 1934 – 18 April 2008) was an English novelist and travel writer. He is best known for writing The Borrible Trilogy,[1] which has been cited as an influence by writers in the New Weird movement.[2]
Early life
One of five children, de Larrabeiti was born in St Thomas' Hospital and was mostly brought up in Battersea, South London. His mother was of working-class Irish descent and lived most of her life in the Lavender Hill area of London; his father was a Basque from Bilbao and was often absent.
In 1939 he was evacuated to Arundel in West Sussex, before returning to London in 1940, only to be evacuated again to Askern, a mining village near Doncaster in Yorkshire, in the winter. At the end of the Second World War he returned to London and, after failing the 11-plus, was educated at Clapham Central Secondary School. The teachers he had here, often men who had returned from fighting in the war determined to make a better world, were a great influenc
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