Gabriel Rosenstock - Bliain an Bhandé: Year of the Goddess

Gabriel Rosenstock is the author/translator of over 150 books, including 13 volumes of poetry and a volume of haiku, as well as numerous books for children, mostly in Irish (Gaelic). Prose work includes fiction, essays in The Irish Times, radio plays and travel writing. A member of Aosdna (the Irish Academy of Arts and Letters), he has given readings in Europe, South, Central and North America, India, Australia, Japan and has been published in various leading international journals including Akzente, Neue Rundschau, and die horen (Germany), Poetry (Chicago), World Haiku Review, Irish Pages, Poetry Ireland Review and Sirena. He has given readings at major festivals, including Berlin, Bremen, Struga (Macedonia), Vilenica (Slovenia), Medelln, Ars Poetica (Slovakia) and the nomadic Kritya festival in India. Rosenstock taught haiku at the Schule fr Dichtung (Poetry Academy) in Vienna.

Among his awards is the Tamgha I Kidmat medal for services to literature. He has brought out Irish-language versions and translations of among others, Francisco X. Alarcn, Seamus Heaney, Rabindranath Tagore, Gnter Grass, W M Roggeman, Said, Zhng Ye, Michele Ranchetti, Michael Augustin, Peter Huchel, Georg Trakl, Georg Heym, Hansjrg, Schertenleib, Hilde Domin, Johann P. Tammen, Munir Niazi, Ko Un, Gnter Kunert, Iqbal, Michael Krger, Kristiina Ehin, Nikola Madzirov, Agnar Artvertin, Walter Helmut Fritz, K. Satchidanandan, Elke Schmitter, and Matthias Politycki as well as Irish-language versions of classical haiku and modern haiku by amongst others John W. Sexton (Ireland), J W Hackett (USA), Andres Ehin (Estonia), Petar Tchouhov (Bulgaria) and Janak Sapkota (Nepal).

Rosenstock is the Irish-language advisor for the poetry journal THE SHOp and a Foundation Associate of The Haiku Foundation. Rosenstocks vast output includes plays, work for TV, novels and short stories, childrens literature in prose and verse, including Irish versions of such classics as The Gruffalo. Recent succcesful picture books include Sa Tir ar an Yeit (Cl Mhaigh Eo) and his retelleings of ancient and medieval Indian tales, Birbal (Cl Iar-Chonnacht). He is the Irish-language translator with the new imprint Walker ireann. Among the anthologies in which he is represented is Best European Fiction 2012 (Dalkey Archive Press, USA). His Selected Poems / Rogha Dnta (Cl Iar-Chonnachta) appeared in 2005 and the original edition of this bilingual volume Bliain an Bhand/ Year of the Goddess came out in 2007 (Dedalus).

He is the Irish translator of numerous films and TV shows including Watership Down and The Muppet Show. He is also well known as a translator of song lyrics by Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and others. Two books on haiku as a way of life, Haiku Enlightenment and Haiku, the Gentle Art of Disappearing from Cambridge Scholars Publishing are available from Amazon. Uttering Her Name (Salmon Poetry) is his dbut volume of poems in English. Dialann Anama (2007) is an interactive diary drawing on the worlds wisdom traditions, mostly Advaita.