British dramatist, memoirist, poet, and novelist Bernard Kops has passed away.
Bernard Kops Cause of death
Bernard Kops has died “peacefully” surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 97, his family has announced.
A statement shared with the PA news agency by his family said: “Poet and playwright Bernard Kops died peacefully Sunday surrounded by his great love, Erica, and the many family members who never found themselves far from the embrace of his smile or his words.”
His publisher David Paul said in a tribute: “Sad to learn of the death of Bernard Kops death this morning.
“He was the last of the celebrated crop of Jewish writers that emerged in the 1950s out of the Jewish East End such as (Harold) Pinter and (Arnold) Wesker, and he was prolific with a cornucopia of plays, novels, and poetry.”
Bernard Kops obituary information
Bernard Kops was born in the East End of London in 1926 to Dutch-Jewish parents, he left school as a teenager.
Bernard Kops established himself with his first play The Hamlet Of Stepney Green in 1957, which portrayed a working-class community through the relationship between an ill father and his adult son.
In 1975, suffering from drug addiction, Kops made a suicide attempt; he wrote about the incident and his successful journey to sobriety in his second autobiography, Shalom Bomb: Scenes from My Life.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
