Josy Braun
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Josy Braun (born 14 January 1938 in Luxembourg City
) is a Luxembourg
writer, journalist and translator who writes mainly in Luxembourgish.
Braun has written plays both for adults and children and has also written children's stories. Conveying political concerns, his plays include D'Kromm an der Heck (1966), Requiem fir e Lompekréimer (1966), Wie bas de Leo? (1976), Hexejuecht (1978). He has written both poetry and prose. His works have been translated into German, French, English, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. He is the author of the very first detective story in Luxembourgish, Porto fir d'Affekoten (1997). In his recent collection of poems, Billersproochbiller, which is illustrated by his wife Josée Klinker, there are translations into French, German and English with a view to extending readership beyond the local Luxembourgers.
Kréiwénkel is a novel about the dreams, longing and frustrations of its characters, showing how they evolve inwardly and outwardly in a changing world. Braun describes the village life in which they undergo slow changes in their inner conditions and spiritual experiences.
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) is a Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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writer, journalist and translator who writes mainly in Luxembourgish.
Braun has written plays both for adults and children and has also written children's stories. Conveying political concerns, his plays include D'Kromm an der Heck (1966), Requiem fir e Lompekréimer (1966), Wie bas de Leo? (1976), Hexejuecht (1978). He has written both poetry and prose. His works have been translated into German, French, English, Italian, Portuguese and Russian. He is the author of the very first detective story in Luxembourgish, Porto fir d'Affekoten (1997). In his recent collection of poems, Billersproochbiller, which is illustrated by his wife Josée Klinker, there are translations into French, German and English with a view to extending readership beyond the local Luxembourgers.
Kréiwénkel is a novel about the dreams, longing and frustrations of its characters, showing how they evolve inwardly and outwardly in a changing world. Braun describes the village life in which they undergo slow changes in their inner conditions and spiritual experiences.
Selected works
- Josée Klincker, Josy Braun: "billersproochbiller", Gedichter op lëtzebuergesch an däitsch, Editions Le Phare, Esch-sur-Alzette, 2010. 160 pp. ISBN 978-2-8796
- Josy Braun, "Kréiwénkel", Echternach, Editions Phi, 1998. ISBN 3-88865-165-4
- Josy Braun: "Porto fir d'Affekoten", Echternach, Editions Phi, 1997