Carmen Bernos de Gasztold

Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
Born 1919 (1919)
Arcachon, France
Died 1995 (aged 75–76)
Occupation Poet

Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919, in Arcachon – 1995[1]) was a French poet and nun.

She spent her childhood in the province of Bordeaux, France. She had 5 sisters and brothers. After World War II she went to live at the Benedictine Abbaye Saint Louis du Temple at Limon-par-Igny.[2]

Her family were of Lithuanian descent (Gasztold being the Polish rendering of the Lithuanian name Goštautas).[3]

She is an ancestor of the media-man Jean-Marc Laurent[4]

The English translation was written by Rumer Godden (1907–1998) who went to the Benedictine Abbey in France and spent time with the poet to do the translation.

Works

  • Prières dans L'Arche, French & European Pubns, 1985, ISBN 978-0-685-11511-4
  • Choral de Bêtes, French & European Pubns, 1985, ISBN 978-0-685-11121-5

English translation

  • Prayers from the ark and the Creatures' choir, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, Translator Rumer Godden, Penguin Books, 1976
    • Prayers from the ark: selected poems, Carmen Bernos de Gasztold, Translator Rumer Godden, Illustrator Barry Moser, Reprint Puffin Books, 1995, ISBN 9780140545852
  • "The Prayer of the Dog", To absent friends: a collection of stories of the dogs we miss, Editor Jameson Parker, Willow Creek Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-57223-706-3

References

  1. ↑ "Livres pour enfants (I) de Carmen Bernos de Gasztold" (PDF). Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.lovethepoem.com/poets/carmen-bernos-de-gasztold/
  3. ↑ "Bozonarodzeniowa-modlitwa-kota" (in Polish). ulubiency.wp.pl. Retrieved 25 August 2014.
  4. ↑ fr:Jean-Marc Laurent
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