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| Leonora Carrington, writer and painter was born in 1917 and raised in Lancashire. She attended finishing school in Florence before enrolling at art college in London where she witnessed the first Surrealist exhibition and became fascinated with the movement and it's figurehead, Max Ernst. At nineteen she eloped with him to Paris then the South of France where they both painted and exhibited and Leonora began to write. Following a harrowing stint in a Madrid asylum brought on by the arrests of Max Ernst in 1939 and 1940 as an enemy alien (from which she was rescued by her nanny who arrived in a submarine!) she married and settled for a while in New York where she continued to write and paint before moving to Mexico City with her second husband. A prolific writer, she added theatre design to her repertoire and spent her time between Chicago, New York and Mexico City, writing in French, Mexican and English. I find her work brutal, sexual, powerful and magical. The richness of her imagery and the poetry of her language coupled with the incredible scope of her imagination make her on of my favourite writers ever. A collection of her stories and plays is available in "The Seventh Horse and other Tales", published by Virago. I'd be interested to find out more about her and her work if anyone knows of other books or information. |
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