Lee Langley was born in
Calcutta in the late 1930s, of Scottish parents, and she spent most of her early
childhood there. Her parents separated when she was 4, and she spent the next 6
years travelling through India with her mother, where she got caught up in the
Indian independence riots. Her family returned to the UK as feelings rose
higher against the British. Lee Langley has since written of a sense of loss
and exile from a place that she had loved as a child. She has written several
books: “The
Only Person” (1972), “Sunday
Girl” (1973), “Baggage: A
Comedy” (stage-play, 1977), “From the
Broken Tree” (1979), “The Dying
Art” (1983), “Changes of
Address” (1987), “Persistent
Rumours” (1992), “A House in
Pondicherry” (1995), “False
Pretences” (1998), “Distant
Music”, and “A
Conversation on the Quai Voltaire”. “Persistent Rumours” won the Writers’
Guild Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. Lee Langley has also written
film scripts and has adapted novels for TV, such as “The Tenth Man” and “A Woman
of Substance”. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and is also
an active committee member of the P.E.N., the writers’ organization that
campaigns for freedom of speech internationally. Lee Langley is married to the
novelist Theo Richmond, and lives in Richmond in London.
A
tiny Paris on the Coromandel Coast – a Lee Langley article for “The
Independent” from 1996
Renaissance
of the Short Story – another Lee Langley article for “The Independent” from
1998, to coincide with the publication of her own short story collection,
“False Pretences”
“Persistent Rumours”:
A Reading Guide – in pdf format
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