| About Susanna Godoy Lohse |
Susanna Godoy Lohse is the daughter of an American schoolteacher and
a Latin American businessman born in Lima, Peru. Her parents met on a
finca near Havana, Cuba, where her father was playing polo. Her
mother, an expert horse jumper, had come to Havana to take a position as
a governess for a British family.
Born in Oklahoma, after spending the first six months of her life at the
Ambassador Hotel in New York City, Susanna and her family divided
their time between Havana and a Victorian home in a Colorado mining
town not far from the Continental Divide.
When her father's bank and insurance company were confiscated at
gunpoint during the communist revolution, Colorado became her family's
permanent home.
Aspiring to be an artist, Susanna was nevertheless a gifted storyteller.
Following a near death experience where she found herself in a tunnel
lined with thousands of roses, she put her gift to paper, and crafted The
Peerless Dulcinea, a Mommy Dearest merged with Gone With the Wind, set in
the era of Madmen. Through the protagonist's eye's, contrasting portraits
emerge between the Scarlett of the story, a capricious and selfish
socialite, and the story's adult heroine, a Cuban woman of African
descent. With her vivid imagination, Susanna brings to life numerous
other characters, including a maverick sheriff, a feisty rooster named Don
Quixote, a determined dog named Frito, a shy old gold miner, the
wicked daughter of a Russian diplomat, animated statues of Don Quixote
and Cleopatra, and an apparition of a medieval knight.
Before finalizing the novel, Susanna decided to turn The Peerless Dulcinea
into a screenplay, entered it into her first contest, and won a Gold Remi
Award at the Worldfest International Film Festival, where film makers
like Stephen Speilberg, the Coen brothers, George Lucas, Robert
Rodriguez, and Ang Lee won their first awards. Since then, she has
drafted two more original screenplays, one about a little girl who is
visited by the spirit of a Thirteenth Century Buddhist monk, and another
about a middle aged white man, with a cheating wife, ingrate children
and a racist black boss, who starts a new life in a diverse Houston
neighborhood.
Her second screenplay is about a middle aged white man who is
beleaguered by a cheating wife and ingrate kids, who moves into a
diverse Houston neighborhood, creating a comedy of errors.
Her third screenplay is about a 13th century Buddhist monk who is
persecuted and exiled to a remote island by the Japanese government.
Presently, Susanna lives with her husband in Houston, Texas.
She is an entertaining and informative public speaker and radio guest. If
you would like to have her speak to your group please email
info@libertybellepublishing.com
a Latin American businessman born in Lima, Peru. Her parents met on a
finca near Havana, Cuba, where her father was playing polo. Her
mother, an expert horse jumper, had come to Havana to take a position as
a governess for a British family.
Born in Oklahoma, after spending the first six months of her life at the
Ambassador Hotel in New York City, Susanna and her family divided
their time between Havana and a Victorian home in a Colorado mining
town not far from the Continental Divide.
When her father's bank and insurance company were confiscated at
gunpoint during the communist revolution, Colorado became her family's
permanent home.
Aspiring to be an artist, Susanna was nevertheless a gifted storyteller.
Following a near death experience where she found herself in a tunnel
lined with thousands of roses, she put her gift to paper, and crafted The
Peerless Dulcinea, a Mommy Dearest merged with Gone With the Wind, set in
the era of Madmen. Through the protagonist's eye's, contrasting portraits
emerge between the Scarlett of the story, a capricious and selfish
socialite, and the story's adult heroine, a Cuban woman of African
descent. With her vivid imagination, Susanna brings to life numerous
other characters, including a maverick sheriff, a feisty rooster named Don
Quixote, a determined dog named Frito, a shy old gold miner, the
wicked daughter of a Russian diplomat, animated statues of Don Quixote
and Cleopatra, and an apparition of a medieval knight.
Before finalizing the novel, Susanna decided to turn The Peerless Dulcinea
into a screenplay, entered it into her first contest, and won a Gold Remi
Award at the Worldfest International Film Festival, where film makers
like Stephen Speilberg, the Coen brothers, George Lucas, Robert
Rodriguez, and Ang Lee won their first awards. Since then, she has
drafted two more original screenplays, one about a little girl who is
visited by the spirit of a Thirteenth Century Buddhist monk, and another
about a middle aged white man, with a cheating wife, ingrate children
and a racist black boss, who starts a new life in a diverse Houston
neighborhood.
Her second screenplay is about a middle aged white man who is
beleaguered by a cheating wife and ingrate kids, who moves into a
diverse Houston neighborhood, creating a comedy of errors.
Her third screenplay is about a 13th century Buddhist monk who is
persecuted and exiled to a remote island by the Japanese government.
Presently, Susanna lives with her husband in Houston, Texas.
She is an entertaining and informative public speaker and radio guest. If
you would like to have her speak to your group please email
info@libertybellepublishing.com
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