Name Gabriel Rosenstock Awards Bisto Merit Awards | Role Writer | |
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Books Rogha Danta / Selected, Uttering Her Name, Haiku Enlightenment, Beginner's Irish, Haiku: The Gentle Art of Disapp Similar People Francisco X Alarcon, Mario Rosenstock, Heinrich Boll, W B Yeats | ||
Gabriel rosenstock imeall
Gabriel Rosenstock (born 1949) is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdana, he is a poet, haikuist and translator. Born in Kilfinane, County Limerick, he currently resides in Dublin.
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- Gabriel rosenstock imeall
- Gabriel rosenstock reads his poem gaza
- Biography
- Work
- Awards and honours
- List of works
- References
Gabriel rosenstock reads his poem gaza
Biography
Rosenstock's father George was a doctor and writer from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, who was in the Wehrmacht, and fought in World War II. His mother was a nurse from County Galway. Gabriel was the third of six children and the first born in Ireland. He attended Rockwell College and University College Cork.
His son Tristan Rosenstock is a member of the traditional Irish quintet Teada, and impressionist/actor Mario Rosenstock is his nephew.
Work
Rosenstock worked for some time on the television series Anois is Aris on RTE, then on the weekly newspaper Anois. Until his retirement he worked with An Gum, the publications branch of Foras na Gaeilge, the North-South body which promotes the Irish language.
Although he has worked in prose, drama and translation, Rosenstock is primarily known as a poet. He has written or translated over one hundred books.
Two of his more recent works are Eachtrai Krishnamurphy (2003) and Krishnamurphy Ambaist (2004).
He appears in the anthology Best European Fiction 2012, edited by Aleksandar Hemon, with a preface by Nicole Krauss (Dalkey Archive Press).
Awards and honours
Rosenstock is a member of Aosdana, and a former chairman of Poetry Ireland.