Sabatini writer biography

Born: April 29, his parents, Italian Vincenzo Sabatini, and mother Anna Trafford, originally from Liverpool, were famous opera singers. After the birth of their son, they continued to perform and sent Raphael to England, to the parents of Anna, who lived in a small village near Liverpool. Even then, he was addicted to books and subsequently said that he began to write in English because he read the best stories in English.

Soon, Rafael's parents completed ... The artistic career began to teach singing, opening their first school in Porto. And the boy, who was then about seven years old, moved to his parents; There, in Portugal, he studied at the Catholic school, and Portuguese was added to the Italian and English languages ​​from early childhood. A few years later, the Sabatini family returned to Italy, settling in Milan, and Rafael was sent to study in Switzerland, where, of course, he added French and German languages ​​known to him - and his first samples of the pen were in the Swiss school.

At the age of 17, Rafael Sabatini left the school, and his father, considering that free possession of five languages ​​will help his son make a businessman’s career, sent him to England. And in the year he arrived in Liverpool and worked as a translator for several years. In the middle of the x, Rafael Sabatini began to write, and in the year he managed to interest the leading English magazines.

In the year, he received a contract for the novel, while not yet writing a single one, his first book was published in the year. In the year, with the release of the second, he completely abandoned his commercial career and devoted himself entirely to literature - he wrote every year according to the story or novel, not counting the stories. In the same year, he married the daughter of a successful Liverpool merchant and moved to London.

During the First World War, Sabatini became an English subject and worked for British intelligence as a translator. By the year, Rafael Sabatini had the literary experience of the quarter of a century, but it was then that the writer came to the writer - with the exit in England, and later in the United States, the novel “Scaramush”, which tells of the time of the Great French Revolution.

The book became a bestseller. Even more success accompanied him by the novel "Odyssey of Captain Blade." By the middle of the X, Sabatini became a very wealthy writer. However, in the year, his only son died in a car accident, Sabatini fell into depression, and a few years later he and his wife divorced.

The writer bought in a quiet place on the border of England and Wales a house, where he intended to live the rest of his life. But in the year Sabatini married again. Together with his wife, he every January went skiing to Switzerland, to Adeelboden. Sabatini continued to write. In the winter of the year, Sabatini, although seriously ill, went, as always, to Switzerland.

But almost all the time he spent in bed, barely able to hold the pen. And on February 13, the year of the beautiful novelist, who wrote about fifty books and many stories, was gone ... Rafael Sabatini was buried in Adelboden so loved by him. Detailed biography.