Radka Donnell

Radka Donnell, born Radka Zagoroff, (born 24 November 1928 Sofia, Bulgaria; † February 13, 2013 ) was a German -language poet, also the narrator and journalist.

Life

Radka Donnell was born in 1928 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The war years were spent in Germany and emigrated to the USA in 1951. After graduating from Stanford University in 1954 Donnell Master of Fine Arts was at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

A particular reputation they earned as patchwork and quilting artist.

Radka Donnell wrote poetry in German and English.

She was married to the Swiss architectural critic Adolf Max Vogt, who died a month before her. She was the mother of two daughters and lived in Zurich.

Awards / Honors / Awards (selection)

  • Work Year of Zurich (1999)

Key Publications

Individual volumes poems

  • Passion of passage, two languages ​​: Bulgarian - German, with drawings by Hanny Fries, Plovdiv 1993
  • The wales, bilingual Bulgarian - German, Plovdiv 1994
  • The spring book, Plovdiv 1994
  • In next year 's, Poems 1991-1995, Schwandorf 1995
  • The Goldberg variations, Plovdiv 1997
  • Nichtausgeträumt, Zurich 2004

Radka Donnel is represented in numerous anthologies in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, also in urgent kisses and roses. The foreign-language Swiss literature, a reading book, Zurich 1998

Prose

  • The last Héloise, novel, Zurich 2000
  • Monet's " Nympheas " - love close, Zurich 2005

Works in English

  • Quilts As A Women's Art Quilt Poetics, Gallery Pubns 1990
  • Wölfli, by Daniel Baumann and Radka Donnell, Ithaca & ​​London 1997
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