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Per Brask
Per Brask – writer, dramaturg,
translator – is a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film
at the University of Winnipeg where he has taught since 1982.
He has published poetry, short
stories, drama, translations, interviews and essays in such journals
as Border Crossings, Canadian Folklore, Canadian Theatre
Review, Descant, Grain, Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism, Malahat Review, Modern International Drama,
NeWest Review, Performing Arts Journal, Poetica,
Poetry Canada Review, Prairie Fire, The Philosophers’
Magazine and Zygote. He has also written a number of radio
dramas for CBC Manitoba.
His books include Power/lessness
(monologues, Turnstone Chapbooks,1987), Duets (short stories,
with George Szanto, Coteau, 1989), DramaContemporary: Scandinavia
(plays, ed., PAJ, 1989), Double Danish (short stories, ed. and
trans., Cormorant, 1991), Aboriginal Voices: Amerindian, Inuit and
Sami Theatre (essays, plays and interviews, ed. with William Morgan,
Johns Hopkins UP, 1992), God’s Blue Morris: A Selection of Poems
by Niels Hav (ed. and trans. with Patrick Friesen, Crane Editions,
1993), Contemporary Issues in Canadian Theatre and Drama (essays,
ed. Blizzard Publishing, 1995), Essays on Kushner’s Angels
(ed. Blizzard Publishing, 1995), The Woods by Klaus Heck (poems,
trans. with Patrick Friesen, Crane Editions, 1998), 7 Cannons
(plays by Canadian women ed. with Martin Bragg and Roy Surette, Playwrights
Canada Press, 2000), Two Plays by Ulla Ryum (trans. Adler &
Ringe, 2001), A Sudden Sky: Selected poems by Ulrikka S. Gernes
(ed. and trans. with Patrick Friesen, Brick Books, 2001), We Are
Here: a collection of poems by Niels Hav (ed. and trans. with Patrick
Friesen, Book Thug, Forthcoming).
He wrote the libretto for Michael
Matthews’s chamber opera Prince Kasper, which premiered in
May 2005. He is currently engaged in a number of translation projects.
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