![]() ![]() Thomas de Waal graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a First Class Degree in Modern Languages (Russian and Modern Greek). He had done some research on the family's Russian branch, and helped in the researches on family history by his brother Edmund de Waalwhich led to the publication of the book " The Hare with Amber Eyes". Through his grandmother, Elisabeth de Waal née Ephrussi, Thomas de Waal is related to the Ephrussi family who were wealthy Jewish bankers and art patrons in pre- World War II Europe and whose fortunes started in 19th-century Odessa. ![]() He is the brother of Africa specialist Alex de Waal, barrister John de Waal, and potter and writer Edmund de Waal. He is the son of Esther Aline (née Lowndes-Moir), a writer on religion, and Anglican priest Victor de Waal. ![]() He is best known for his 2003 book Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War. Thomas Patrick Lowndes de Waal (born 1966) is a British journalist and writer on the Caucasus. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |