Inge Perreault

Inge Perreault did not start writing short stories, magazine, newspaper articles and eventually books until she was 50 years old. A latecomer to the literary field with a large amount of life experience, her articles were well received, (some bilingual German-English) by American and Canadian readers. On a local level she eventually had her own column in the second largest newspaper of New Jersey where her honesty, sensitivity and humor did not go unnoticed. Today her books are selling world-wide. Born shortly after WWII, she eloquently describes what it was like to grow-up in post-Nazi Germany, something that many people did not know about and how she carried the burden of the generation of her parents all of her life. New York publishers refused to even look at the manuscript insulting her for addressing a subject they did not wish to read about. Inge grew up in utmost poverty but decided on a course of life that would take her to another continent and Manhattan in 1969, when transferred by her company in her first profession as a certified Interpreter. Only after the death of her mother did she find out that she herself is one quarter Jewish and that this is the reason why most of her relatives on her mother's side perished in Auschwitz. Had she known this at the time “Birth of a Tumbleweed – Growing up in Post-Nazi Germany” was published, N.Y. publishing companies may have shown interest in her story.

Her website www.ingeperreault.eu reveals an adventurous life with multiple careers and the Azores Journal has brought her into contact with people from South Africa to Brazil, Tasmania to Hungary, created initially as a description of her life in retirement on the Azorean island of Sao Miguel. A passionate environmentalist she found her final destination in this remote Archipelago where her “Tumbleweed” nature has found peace and serenity.