- ^ "Bigography on the Duke University website". Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-11-28.
- ^ "Bretagnes", n°2, p. 37-39.
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Paol Keineg (born February 6, 1944) is a Breton-American writer and poet born in Quimerc'h (Brittany).
He worked in several places in Brittany as a supervisor before becoming a teacher in Morlaix. He was fired without any official reason in 1972, because of his political separatist leftist Breton points of view. He set up his first plays in 1973 : Le Printemps des Bonnets Rouges (The spring of the red hats) about an historical revolt in Brittany.
In the mid-1970s he moved to California, where he worked illegally as a welder without a green card. In 1977, he put his name down for Brown University, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1981, without having defended a doctoral thesis. He taught French and literature in Dartmouth College, Brown University, and is now in Duke University, after being invited to teach in Berkeley and Harvard universities.[1]
In 1975, he created the review called "Bretagnes", published in Morlaix, where were published one of the first poems written by Rita Dove.[2] In 1983, he created the review called "Poésie-Bretagne" (Poetry-Brittany). He writes his books in Breton, French and English languages.
He is the father of Katell Keineg.
His plays are all in French.
