Carmen Bernos de Gasztold

Carmen Bernos de Gasztold (1919, in Arcachon 1995[1]) is a French poet.

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 Abbeye Saint Louis du Temple at Limon-par-Igny.[2]

Her family were of Lithuanian descent (Gasztold being the Polish rendering of the Lithuanian name Goštautas).[3]

The English translation was written by Rumer Godden (1907–1998) who went to the Benedictine Abbey in France and spent time with the poet to do the translation.

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