Josyane De Jesus-Bergey

Josyane de Jesus Bergey is a Franco/Portuguese poet who was born in La Rochelle, France in 1941.

Biography

Retired from the civil services, she is the vice president of a French literary association, registered in La Rochelle under the name “Larochellivre”.[1] In this role, she organises literary meetings in the Charente Maritime as well as events such as "The Poets' Spring Time"[2] and the “Salon of Poetry Works” in La Rochelle. Josyane de Jesus Bergey is a close friend of Jean Bouhier who founded the poetic movement of the school of Rochefort “l´Ecole de Rochefort” with Pierre Pernon in 1941 and, in 1991, she was the initiator of the foundation at Vesdun (Cher) of the "Forest of one thousand Poets" where the poets of 85 nations are represented by an oak tree. Each tree being dedicated to a creator of a commemorative site of this school where Jean Bouhier can be found amongst others.

Influenced by the culture of Mediterranean peoples, several poems of De Jesus Bergey are dedicated to the Arab nations such as the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish and the Algerian Mohamed Dib. Other texts are translated into English by Angela Serna, and in Portuguese by Ruth Motta.

Participation at meetings and festivals

Selective bibliography

Narration

Prose works

Portfolio

She had a share in different expositions and demonstrations of poetry & paintings:

Publications In different poetry anthologies

In French and foreign revues

Translation

Poetic co-revision, with Mohamed Rafrafi, of the translation done by Hédia DRIDI[7] from Arabic into French for the poems collection of the Iraqi poet Wafaa Abed Al Razzaq, entitled " From The War Child's Dairy" – (Mémoires de l'enfant de la guerre) L'Harmattan Edition, December 2008

References

  1. (French) Présentation de l'association in the official website of « LarochellIvre »
  2. (French) French official website of « he Poets' Spring Time»
  3. (French) "Programmation 2005" (PDF). (4.41 MB) Web oficial del Festival Voix de la méditerranée
  4. (Spanish) Los versos franceses toman la Casa de Cultura in noticiasdealava.com
  5. (French) Ecrits des Forges
  6. (French) Reference
  7. (French) Ne volez pas ma voix

External links

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