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A Romanian Voice for Truth and Beauty: Radu Vancu Joins PEN World Voices 2025

At the beginning of May, as the literary world descends on New York City for the 2025 edition of PEN World Voices, a forceful voice from Eastern Europe will ring out among the crowd. Radu Vancu, one of Romania’s most compelling contemporary poets, prose writers, diarists, essayists, and public intellectuals, is set to join the prestigious festival, bringing with him a body of work that … Continue reading A Romanian Voice for Truth and Beauty: Radu Vancu Joins PEN World Voices 2025

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Ioana Nicolaie: “There’s a continuum of intensity and lived life in all my books”

One of the most original and powerful voices in contemporary Romanian literature, IOANA NICOLAIE is the author of six novels, five volumes of poetry, and ten children’s books, which have won her numerous literary awards. Her novel, Cartea Reghinei / The Book of Reghina was the winner of the 2020 Radio Romania Cultural Award, Observator Lyceum Prize, National Prose Prize Iași, and Book Agency Award. … Continue reading Ioana Nicolaie: “There’s a continuum of intensity and lived life in all my books”

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A Romanian Literary Sensation: Mircea Cărtărescu, the multi-award-winning author of Solenoid, is back in New York

Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Solenoid, one of last years’ international literary sensations, and the most recent winner of the prestigious Dublin Literary Award, is back in New York. After an extensive US tour in 2023, which took him from one coast to the other, the Romanian author has returned to the American metropolis as writer-in-residence at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University, where he teaches … Continue reading A Romanian Literary Sensation: Mircea Cărtărescu, the multi-award-winning author of Solenoid, is back in New York

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“To become a translator takes infinite work” – Interview with award-winning translator Sean Cotter

SEAN COTTER is Professor of Literature and Literary Translation at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has translated numerous important works of Romanian literature, including Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems by Nichita Stănescu, for which he received the Three Percent Best Translated Book Award 2013, Blinding: the Left Wing by Mircea Cărtărescu (Archipelago Books, 2013), Curl by T.O. Bobe (Wakefield Press, 2019), a finalist for the Derek Walcott Prize … Continue reading “To become a translator takes infinite work” – Interview with award-winning translator Sean Cotter

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