Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops is a British Dramatist, poet and novelist, born in the East End of London in 1926.

His first play, "The Hamlet of Stepney Green", was produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 1957. It is considered to be one of the keystones of the "New Wave" in British Kitchen Sink Drama.

Subsequent plays include "Enter Solly Gold" (1962), "Ezra" (1981, about Ezra Pound), "Playing Sinatra" (1991) and "The Dreams of Ann Frank" (1992, about Ann Frank). He has also written extensively for radio and television.

He has published volumes of poetry, autobiography, several novels, and a memoir of the East End, "Bernard Kops' East End" (2006).

elected Bibliography

Kops, Bernard -
*"Awake for Mourning" (MacGibbon and Kee, 1958)
*"Motorbike" (New English Library, 1962
*"The World is a Wedding" (MacGibbon & Kee, 1963)
*"Yes from No-Man's Land" (MacGibbon and Kee, 1965)
*"The Dissent of Dominick Shapiro" (MacGibbon and Kee, 1966)
*"By the Waters of Whitechapel" (Bodley Head, 1969)
*"The Passionate Past of Gloria Gaye" (Secker and Warburg, 1971)
*"Settle Down Simon Katz" (Secker and Warburg)
*"Partners" (Secker and Warburg, 1975)
*"On Margate Sands" (Secker and Warburg, 1978)
*"Neither Your Honey nor Your Sting: An Offbeat History of the Jews" (Robson, 1985)
*"Plays One (Playing Sinatra, The Hamlet of Stepney Green, Ezra)" (Oberon Books, 1999)
*"Plays Two (Dreams of Anne Frank, Cafe Zeitgeist, Call in the Night)" (Oberon Books, 2000)
*"Plays Three (The Dream of Peter Mann, Enter Solly Gold, Who Shall I Be Tomorrow?)" (Oberon Books, 2001)
*"Shalom Bomb: The Autobiography of Bernard Kops" (Oberon Books, 2000)
*"Bernard Kops East End" (Five Leaves Publications, 2006)

ee also

* Cultural depictions of Anne Frank
* Emanuel Litvinoff

Links

*List of Bernard Kops theatre plays [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsK/KopsBernard.htm]
*Bernard Kops at Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465956/]
*List of Bernard Kops radio plays [http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/bkops.html]
*A sad letter of apology for a wasted life, by Aleks Sierz,The Independent, 12 May 2000 [http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/a-sad-letter-of-apology-for-a-wasted-life-625573.html]


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