Carmen Bernos de Gasztold
Carmen Bernos de Gasztold 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.
Her family were of Lithuanian descent.
She is an ancestor of the media-man Jean-Marc Laurent
The English translation was written by Rumer Godden 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,
- Choral de Bêtes, French & European Pubns, 1985,
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,
- , To absent friends: a collection of stories of the dogs we miss, Editor Jameson Parker, Willow Creek Press, 2004,
