Anne Atik
Anne Atik (1932 – 2021) was an American poet and writer.
Biography
Anne Atik was born in 1932 in Jerusalem. At the age of 6, her family moved to New York City. She studied literature at Sarah Lawrence College, where she was encouraged to pursue poetry by Horace Gregory. In 1959 she settled in Paris,[1] where she met the painter Avigdor Arikha. They wed in 1961 and remained married until his death in 2010. She is the subject of numerous paintings and drawings by the artist.[2][3] The couple was friendly with Samuel Beckett,[4] of whom Atik wrote a biography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alberto Giacometti, Balthus, and Paul Celan. She later befriended the author Ayşegül Savaş.[5][6]
Atik is the mother of the writer and singer/songwriter Alba Arikha[7] and philosopher and historian Noga Arikha.[8]
Career
Anne Atik's collections of poetry include Words in Hock (1974), Drancy (1989), and Offshore (1991).[9] Drancy and Offshore feature illustrations by R.B. Kitaj.[10][11][12] Her poems appeared in Poetry, New World Writing, The Nation, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, and other journals. She translated Aimé Césaire, Raymond Queneau, Guillaume Apollinaire, Jules Supervielle, Gérard d’Houville, and T. Carmi.[13]
Atik's How It Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett was published by Faber & Faber in 2001.[14][15] Its title was taken from Beckett's novel How It Is. "After fifteen years of memorable conversations with Beckett, I realized that I could not depend on my memory. The unforgettable was becoming the irretrievable," she wrote.[16] Ayşegül Savaş recalled that "How It Was is one of the most loving portraits of an artist I have ever read, a record of Beckett’s kindness and extraordinary mind spilling over onto conversations and letters."[5] In 2009 Sotheby's put the letters from Beckett to Atik and Arikha up for auction.[17]
References
- ↑ "Anne Atik". Counterpoint Press. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ "Collections Online | British Museum". Anne Atik - British Museum. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ Stevens, Mark (July 13, 1992). "The Rights of the Eye". The New Republic; Washington. 207 (3–4). p. 40. ProQuest 212869976.
- ↑ O'Brien, Aoife (2002-01-04). "LIfe with my friend Samuel Beckett". Irish Independent. p. 14. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Savas, Aysegul (2018-01-22). "The Poet Upstairs by Aysegul Savas". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ "Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". collections.ushmm.org. Archived from the original on 2025-02-18. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ "Alba Arikha | Author Pianist Singer and Songwriter". www.albaarikha.com. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ "About". Noga Arikha. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ Review of Offshore
- Burns, Jim (1994). "Review of OFFSHORE". Ambit (135): 75–76. ISSN 0002-6972.
- ↑ Atik, Anne (1974). Words in Hock: Poems. Enitharmon Press. ISBN 978-0-901111-53-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Atik, Anne (1991). Offshore. Enitharmon. ISBN 978-1-870612-02-9. Search this book on
- ↑ Atik, Anne; Kitaj, R. B. (1989). Drancy. Miro. Search this book on
- ↑ "American Poetry Review – Authors". aprweb.org. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ "Biography". The Samuel Beckett Society. 2012-03-13. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ Reviews of How It Was
- Gontarski, S. E. (2007). "Review: Beckett's Book of Hours". James Joyce Literary Supplement. 21 (1): 11–11. ISSN 0899-3114.
- Blume, Mary (2004-02-27). "Beckett's refuge:story of a friendship". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
- Duke, Gerry (2001-12-15). "Beckett: memoirs not made of this". Irish Independent. p. 41. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
- Ricks, Christopher (December 29, 2001). "Well seen, well said, ill done". The Spectator; London. 287 (9047): 35. ProQuest 201187646.
- ↑ "How it Was: A Memoir of Samuel Beckett". Goodreads. Retrieved 2025-07-02.
- ↑ Burke-Kennedy, Eoin (17 December 2009). "Collection of Beckett's letters to be auctioned today". Irish Times; Dublin. p. 3. ProQuest 309203191.
External links
- Anne Atik at the Samuel Beckett Society
- Images referencing Anne Atik in the British Museum
- "Music on the Winter Solstice—Three Movements," Anne Atik, The American Poetry Review, Volume 26, No. 05
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