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Teresa Fagan

Biography

Teresa Fagan

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator. She has published more than a dozen book-length translations, including Jean Bottéro’s THE OLDEST CUISINE IN THE WORLD: Cooking in Mesopotamia and Catherine Cusset’s LIFE OF DAVID HOCKNEY.

Teresa Fagan

Books by Teresa Fagan

written by Catherine Cusset, translated by Teresa Fagan - Fiction

Born in 1937 in a small town in the north of England, David Hockney had to fight to become an artist. After leaving his home in Bradford for the Royal College of Art in London, his career flourished, but he continued to struggle with a sense of not belonging, because of his homosexuality, which had yet to be decriminalized, and his inclination for a figurative style of art not sufficiently “contemporary” to be valued. Trips to New York and California --- where he would live for many years and paint his iconic swimming pools --- introduced him to new scenes and new loves, beginning a journey that would take him through the fraught years of the AIDS epidemic.