Eva Bourke
Eva Bourke (born 1946 ) is an Irish writer and translator of German origin.
Life
Eva Bourke's family has Austrian roots. She grew up first in a Bavarian village and then in a small town, where she was one of the few girls in her year to attend the humanistic grammar school. She studied German and art history at Munich University. Towards the end of the 1970s, she moved with her husband, the Irish German studies specialist Eoin Bourke , and their three children from Munich to Ireland and have lived in Galway ever since . One son is the artist Benjamin de Burca, who was born in Munich in 1975 .
Bourke writes in English and has published several volumes of poetry. Her translations of Irish poets into German have appeared in the magazines die horen , Eiswasser and Akzente , among others . She translated a selection of poems by Elisabeth Borchers into English and the poems for two anthologies of Irish poetry into German. Bourke is a member of Aosdána .
Works (selection)
- Gonella . Illustrations Jay Murphy. Galway: Salmon, 1985
- Litany for the pig: poems . Illustrations Jay Murphy. Galway: Salmon, 1989
- Jump on Henry Street . Dublin: Dedalus Press, 1996
- Travels with Gandolpho . Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2000
- The Latitude of Naples . Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2005
- piano . Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2011
- Seeing yellow . Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2018
- Anthologies
- with Borbála Farag (Ed.): Landing Places: Immigrant Poets in Ireland . 2010
- with Vincent Woods (Ed.): Fermata: Writings Inspired by Music . 2016
- Translations
- with Eoin Bourke (Ed.): Hundsrose. New Irish Poems . Translation by Friedrich Michael Dannenbauer. Augsburg: Maro, 1985 ISBN 9783875120615
- with Eoin Bourke (Ed.): Mit grüner Ink / With Green Ink. contemporary Irish poetry . Bamberg: Collibri, 1996
- Elisabeth Borchers : Winter on White Paper - Winter on White Paper . Dublin: Poetry Europe Series, 2002
- Moya Cannon : A Private Country. Poems . Translation from English Eva Bourke, Eric Giebel. Dortmund: edition open field, 2017 ISBN 9783744875233
literature
- Hermann Rasche, Christiane Schönfeld (ed.): Denkbilder ...: Festschrift for Eoin Bourke . Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004 ISBN 3-8260-2650-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Eva Bourke in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Eva Bourke in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Eva Bourke , at Aosdána (as of 2019)
- Eva Bourke , at Lyrikline.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ To Interview with Eva Bourke , The Poetry Ireland Review, No. 106 (April 2012), pp. 116-127 (beginning of article at Jstor)
- ↑ Portrait at Aosdána , accessed on December 17, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bourke, Eva |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer and translator of German origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |