Ly de Angeles
| Ly de Angeles | |
|---|---|
| File:Ly de Angeles.jpgFile:Ly de Angeles.jpg | |
| Born | 20 December 1951 Sydney |
| 💼 Occupation | author, storyteller, seer |
| 🌐 Website | www.lydeangeles.com |
Ly de Angeles (born December 1951), author, storyteller (seanchaí), seer and mythographer.
Early life and education
De Angeles won her first writing competition in 1962 for Book Week of the Year, Australia.
Studying with the Independent Theatre in North Sydney, de Angeles directed stage and screen productions. Her first book was published in 1987. While raising her children she became a silversmith, and worked as a tarot consultant and author. She also trained in bodybuilding, nutrition and martial arts. She is a sensei of the Japanese martial art Iaido, registered in Victoria as Shizen-Enso Iaido.
De Angeles relocated from Byron Bay to Melbourne, to enter post-graduate research on writing and linguistics with Deakin University. Her memoir, Initiation, was published in 2016. She is an proponent of ecological language, myth, animist rewilding and environmental awareness.
Career
Through her work with Harper & Row she allied with author and editor Nevill Drury. He launched her career as an author in 1987 with her first book, The Way of the Goddess, published through Unity/Prism, UK, in 1987. This was followed in 1991 by The Way of Merlyn. Both books were imprints of Drury's publishing company, Prism, in Dorset, England. Both books were titled by him and were published under another surname.[citation needed] Several of her books are in Portuguese, Czech and Québécois.
Writing and production
For several years de Angeles has facilitated public gatherings, called Rivers in the Skin, both nationally and internationally, based on her book Priteni, the Decimation of Celtic Briton, independently published in 2015, that explains the rights to self-determination of her ancestors. She has written and shot several short films, music videos and documentaries. In 2000 she was asked to direct a pagan version of Andrew Lloyd Weber's Jesus Christ Superstar, followed by Romeo & Juliet (in collaboration with her daughter), and Jesus Christ Superstar again, due to public demand, within which she also played the second lead of Judas. She was fifty at the time. She facilitated multiple community productions and youth-related projects while also writing several more books, most of which were published through Llewellyn Worldwide, USA (starting 2000). It was during those years that de Angeles took her first trip to Ireland, a mythic adventure that was to alter a life course she thought she had set, becoming animist and studying the legends, lore and customs of her indigenous ancestral past.
Reception
A 2013 review of Genesis in Publishers Weekly lamented the "elevated, if empty, preaching that stifles this whimsical narrative".[1]
Awards
- COVR Visionary Fiction Award, The Quickening, U.S.A., 2003
- Byron All Shorts, The Redemption of Joe Frame, Australia, 2009
- Short-listed Byron International Film Festival, The Redemption of Joe Frame, Australia, 2009
- Short-listed Byron International Film Festival, The Redemption of Joe Frame, Australia, 2010
- gritLIT, Comeuppance, Canada, 2016
Filmography
- Healers, Quacks or Mystics? (1983) ABC TV Series
- The Redemption of Joe Frame, a Rushton/de Angeles production, 2009
- Wings, black comedy, Full Story Productions, 2010
References
- ↑ "Genesis". Publishers Weekly. 2013. Retrieved 2026-04-01 – via EBSCOhost.
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