1. Youenn Gwernig was a French-American poet, writer, singer and TV presenter on the French channel France 3.
10 Facts About Youenn Gwernig
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Youenn Gwernig was born in 1925 in the town of Scaer.
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Youenn Gwernig moved to the United States in 1957 with his two daughters.
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Youenn Gwernig became a friend of Jack Kerouac and lived in the Bronx, where he wrote some bilingual poems in Breton and in English about New York or his nostalgy of Brittany in an American big city, as Un dornad plu or War ribl ar ster Harlem.
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Youenn Gwernig used to send his poems to the Breton library Al Liamm.
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Youenn Gwernig returned to Brittany in 1969 with his wife and his daughters.
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Youenn Gwernig moved to Locmaria-Berrien and worked with Patrick Ewen and Gerard Delahaye.
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Youenn Gwernig released the album Distro ar Gelted in 1974.
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Youenn Gwernig became famous with his song E-kreiz an noz.
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Youenn Gwernig wrote a novel in French in 1982, La grande tribu, where he described his life in the USA.