May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Begins an affair with Paul Bowles, having met him a year earlier.
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Completes purchase of a house on Odos Erechthiou in the Makrianni district of Athens, where she will live until 1975.
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Completes the purchase of a derelict dovecote on the island of Mykonos, which she will use as a retreat from Athens for the next nine years.
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Leaves New York for Greece, intending to live there permanently.
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Leaves Greece for Sydney, where she will live for the remainder of her life. Image: National Archives Australia.
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Completes the ballet Rimbaud, which will be choreographed by John Butler and performed at the Broadway Theater in New York by the Harkness Ballet with Lawrence Rhodes as Rimbaud. Image: Harkness Foundation
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Undergoes surgery at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York for a brain tumour
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Herbert Adler, on behalf of San Francisco Opera, recommends a commission for the opera Sappho
May 28, 2020
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Suzanne Robinson
Premiere of the opera Nausicaa at the Herodes Atticus Theatre, Athens, featuring Teresa Stratas as Nausicaa and the Athens Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlos Surinach.
May 27, 2020
In
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Suzanne Robinson
Visits Paul Bowles in Tangier.
Photo: Herbert List/Magnum, 1956.
