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English novelist, travel writer (1934–2008)

Michael de Larrabeiti (18 August 1934 – 18 April 2008) was an English novelist and travel writer.

He is best known for writing The Borrible Trilogy,^[1] which has been cited as an influence by writers in the New Weird movement.^[2]

Early life

One of five children, de Larrabeiti was born in St Thomas' Hospital and was mostly brought up in Battersea, South London.

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His mother was of working-class Irish descent and lived most of her life in the Lavender Hill area of London; his father was a Basque from Bilbao and was often absent.

In 1939 he was evacuated to Arundel in West Sussex, before returning to London in 1940, only to be evacuated again to Askern, a mining village near Doncaster in Yorkshire, in the winter.

At the end of the Second World War he returned to London and, after failing the 11-plus, was educated at Clapham Central Secondary School. The teachers he had here, often men who