Paol Keineg

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Paol Keineg (born February 6, 1944) is a Breton-American writer and poet born in Quimerc'h (Brittany).

He has worked in a several places in Brittany as supervisor before being a teacher in Morlaix. He was fired without any official reason in 1972, because of his political separatist leftist Breton points of view. He set up his first plays in 1973 : Le Printemps des Bonnets Rouges (The spring of the red hats) about an historical revolt in Brittany.

In the mid 70' he moved to California where he was unofficially a welder without any work licence. En 1977, he put his name down in Brown University. There he was graduate with a Ph. D in the year 1981. He taught French and literature in Dartmouth College, Brown University, and is now in Duke University, after being invited teacher in Berkeley and Harvard universities.[1]

In 1983, he created the review which name is "Poésie-Bretagne" (Poetry-Brittany).

He is the father of Katell Keineg. He uses to writes his books in Breton, French and English languages.

Books

  • Abalamour (in Breton and French), drawings by François Dilasser, Les Hauts Fonds, 2012
  • Les trucs sont démolis (in French), Le temps qu'il fait/Obsidiane, 2008
  • Là et pas là (in French), Le temps qu'il fait/Lettres sur cour, 2005
  • Terre lointaine (in French), Apogée editions, 2004
  • Triste Tristan, suivi de Diglossie, j'y serre mes glosses (in French), Apogée editions, 2003
  • Anna Zero (in French), Apogée editions, 2002
  • Dieu et madame Lagadec (in French), Scorff's editions, 2001
  • A Cournille (in French), Dana editions, 1999
  • Tohu (in English), Wigwam editions, 1995
  • Silva return, Maurice Nodeau and Guernica (in English) (Montreal), 1989
  • Oiseaux de Bretagne, oiseaux d'Amérique (in French), Obsidiane, 1984
  • Préfaces au Gododdin (in French), Bretagnes editions, 1981
  • Boudica, Taliesin et autres poèmes (in French), Maurice Nadeau, 1980
  • 35 haiku (in Breton), Bretagne editions, 1978
  • Lieux communs, suivi de Dahut (in French), Gallimard editions, 1974
  • Histoires vraies/Mojennoù gwir (in French and Breton), P.J. Oswald, 1974
  • Le printemps des Bonnets Rouges (in French), P.J. Oswald, 1972
  • Chroniques et croquis des villages verrouillés (in French), P.J. Oswald, 1971
  • Hommes liges des talus en transes (in French), P.J. Oswald, 1969
  • Le poème du pays qui a faim (in French), Traces, 1967, Bretagne editions, 1982

Plays

His all playwriting has been written in French.

  • Le printemps des Bonnets Rouges, Théâtre de la Tempête, directed by Jean-Marie Serreau, December 1972- January 1973.
  • (Manque d')aventures en Pathogénie, France-Culture, directed by Jean Taromi, 1983.
  • La Reine de la nuit, Théâtre du Miroir, Châteaulin, Finistère, 1992.
  • Kaka, ou l'Entrevue céleste, in La Nuit des naissances, Théâtre de Folle Pensée, Saint-Brieuc, 1994.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Bigography on the Duke University website

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