Name Inge Israel | ||
Books Raking Zen Furrows, Beckett Soundings: Poems, Unmarked Doors, Two Plays for Stage or Radio, Aux quatre terres | ||
Born in Germany, Inge Israel grew up in France and Ireland and lived in Denmark for some years before settling in Canada. She first lived in Edmonton, Alberta and now has her home in Victoria, British Columbia. She speaks four languages and writes in both French and English.
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Awards
The recipient of several poetry prizes, Inge Israel was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.
Her play, Pensées Inédites was broadcast on Radio Canada and several stories and poetry cycles were broadcast on the CBC and the BBC. In addition to readings of her poetry in Canada, Europe and Japan, Inge Israel has given dramatized presentations of her plays in Canada and Japan.
Books
- Réflexions, poetry (French), Ed. St.Germain-des-Prés, Paris, 1978. ISBN 2-243-00827-0
- Même le Soleil a des Taches, poetry, Ed. St.Germain-des-Prés, 1980. ISBN 2-243-01134-4
- Aux Quatre Terres, poetry (French), Ed. du Vermillon, Ottawa, 1990. ISBN 0-919925-52-9
- Raking Zen Furrows, poetry, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, 1991. ISBN 0-921870-05-1
- Unmarked Doors, poetry, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, 1992. ISBN 0-921870-16-7
- Le Tableau Rouge, short stories (French), Ed. du Vermillon, 1997. ISBN 1-895873-48-7
- Rifts in the Visible/Fêlures dans le Visible poetry (bilingual), Ronsdale Press, 1997. ISBN 0-921870-45-0
- Ucho no Samon, Japanese translation of Raking Zen Furrows, Bungeisha Press, Japan, 2007. ISBN 978-4-286-03632-8
- Beckett Soundings, poetry, Ronsdale Press, to be published in March 2011.
Plays
- Clean Breast, drama in 2 acts, Questex, 1999. ISBN 1-896913-23-7
- The Unwritten Letters/Wild Rhythm, 2 dramas, Questex, 1999. ISBN 1-896913-24-5
- Philosophy & Other Catastrophes, play, Questex, 2005. ISBN 1-896913-45-8
Essays, plays, and poetry published in anthologies
- L'ouest en Nouvelles, Editions des Plaines, 1986. ISBN 978-0-920944-64-6
- Sous le Soleil de L'ouest, Ed. des Plaines, 1988. ISBN 0-920944-71-X
- Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, Japan, 1993.
- Eating Apples, NeWest Press, Edmonton, AB, 1994. ISBN 978-0-920897-79-9
- Littérature et culture francophones de Colombie-Britannique, Les Editions David, 2004. ISBN 978-2-89597-025-5
- Sweet Lemons 2, Legas of Mineola, New York & Ottawa, 2010. ISBN 1-881901-76-9