Bernard Kops's Biography

Bernard Kops's Professional Career

Career

writer, poet and broadcaster; lectr in drama The Spiro Inst 1985-86; writer in residence at various instns incl: ILEA, Surrey Educn Authy, Feltham Young Offenders Inst, The Paines Plough Co, City Literary Inst; Arts Cncl bursary 1957-2004, C S Lewis fellowship, awarded Civil List pension for services to literature 2009

Bernard Kops's Publications

Books and Publications

Novels incl: Awake for Mourning (1958), The Dissent of Dominick Shapiro (1966), The Passionate Past of Gloria Gaye (1972), Partners (1975), On Margate Sands (1978), The Odyssey of Samuel Glass (2012); Non-Fiction Neither Your Honey Nor Your Sting - An Offbeat History of the Jews (1985), The World is a Wedding (autobiography, 1963, 1975), Collected Plays: Vol 1 (1998) Vol 2 (2000), Vol 3 (2002), Shalom Bomb (autobiography, 2000), Bernard Kops East End, The World is a Wedding (2007); Poetry Poems (1955), Poems and Songs (1958), Anemone for Antigone (1959), Erica, I Want You to Read Something (1967), For the Record (1971), Barricades in West Hampstead (1988), Grandchildren and Other Poems (2000), This Room in the Sunlight (2009), Selected Poetry: Whitechapel Dreams (2009); Stage Plays incl: The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1956), The Dream of Peter Mann (1959), Enter Solly Gold (1961, televised 1968), Stray Cats and Empty Bottles (1967, televised 1967), Ezra (1981, on radio 1980), Simon at Midnight (1985, on radio 1982), More Out Than In (1980, on radio 1985), Kafe Kropotkin (1988, also on radio), Sophie! the Last of the Red Hot Mamas (1990), Moss (1991, on radio 1983, televised 1976), Playing Sinatra (1992), Dreams of Anne Frank (1992, winner London Fringe Awards 1993), Who Shall I Be Tomorrow (1992), Call in the Night (1995), Golem (1996), Jacob and the Green Rabbi (1997), Houdini (1999), Cafe Zeitgeist (1999), Riverchange (2000), The Opening (2001), I am Isaac Babel (2002), Returning we hear the Larks (2004), Knocking on Heaven's Door (2005), Rogues and Vagabonds (2008); Radio Plays incl: Return to Stepney Green (1957), Home Sweet Honeycomb (1962), Israel Pt 1 (1963), Israel Pt 2 (1964), I Grow Old, I Grow Old (1979), Over the Rainbow (1981), Trotsky was My Father (1984), Congress in Manchester (1990), Soho Nights (serial, 1993), Sailing With Homer (1994, Writer's Guild Award 1994/95), The Jericho Players (1996), Rogues and Vagabonds (1998), Monster Man (1999), Falling in Love Again (2000), The Lost Love of Phoebe Myers (2006), Whitechapel Dreams (2009), Harry and the Angels (2010); Television Drama/Documentary incl: I Want to Go Home (1963), The Lost Years of Brian Hooper (1965), It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow (1975), The Geese that Shrieked and The Boy Philosopher (adaptions from Isaac Bashevis Singer 1975), Rocky Marciano is Dead (1977), Nightkids (1983)

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