Lucia Graves
Author of A Woman Unknown: Voices from a Spanish Life
About the Author
Lucia Graves was born in England and spent her childhood on the island of Majorca. After graduating from St. Anne's College, Oxford, she returned to Spain, where she married a jazz musician and pursued a career as a literary translator and lyricist. Since 1991 she has lived in London
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- Canonical name
- Graves, Lucia
- Birthdate
- 1943-07-21
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- England
UK - Birthplace
- Devon, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Mallorca, Spain
London, England, UK - Education
- International School of Geneva, Switzerland
University of Oxford (St. Anne’s College) - Occupations
- author
journalist
translator (Spanish ∙ Catalan ∙ English) - Relationships
- Graves, Robert (father)
Graves, Tomas (brother)
Graves, Alfred Perceval (grandfather)
Graves, William (brother) - Short biography
- Lucia Graves was born in England in 1943, but was taken to Palma, Mallorca (Spain) 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. She is the daughter of Robert Graves, the writer, and has translated many of his works into Spanish and Catalan. She had three daughters by her first marriage, and lives now with her second husband in London.
Lucia Graves has performed literary translation for twenty five years, publishing over thirty volumes, mostly from English into Spanish or Catalan and also translating works into English, such as The Columbus Papers. Aside from her many translations, she has written articles and book reviews,
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