Author: Gabriel Rosenstock

Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (1923) is one of the golden books of all time. It rocketed to fame and is read by millions —everyone from hippie kids searching for meaning and solace in a war-torn world to celebrity figures like Marilyn Monroe, who would open its pages during filming breaks.
The Prophet has never been out of print and has been translated into over a hundred languages, including an Irish-language version by Gabriel Rosenstock. Having first read the The Prophet as a teenager, Rosenstock was deeply moved by Gibran’s mystic arrows that pierce the heart yet also flummoxed by certain passages.
Inspired to transcreate it into Irish, Rosenstock’s task led him to write a sequel —a homage to Gibran. A poetic speculation, perhaps; let the reader judge if it strays too far!

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