Romania

Adrian Sângeorzan

Adrian Sângeorzan was born in 1954 in Bistrita-Nasaud, Romania. He graduated from the University of Cluj medical school in Transylvania and worked as a doctor in Romania until 1990, when he immigrated…...

Ioan Es. Pop

Ioan Es. Pop was born March 27, 1958 in VÄï¿½rai, MaramureÅï¿½ (in the northwest of Romania). His books include No Way Out of Hadesburg (Ieudul fÄï¿½rÄï¿½…...

Richard Wagner

Born in 1952 in Lowrin, a village in the Romanian province of Banat, Richard Wagner, a member of the German-speaking minority of the Banater Schwaben, studied German and Romanian literature in…...

Mihaela Mudure

Mihaela Mudure is professor of English Literature at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj, Romania. She has published extensively in Romanian and international journals. Among her translations are Proverbe…...

Horia Gârbea

Horia Gârbea was born on August 10, 1962 in Bucharest, Romania. Trained as a civil engineer, he obtained his PhD in 1999. He is a professor at the Environmental Engineering Faculty in Bucharest.…...

Carmen Firan

Carmen Firan, a poet and fiction writer, has published twenty volumes of poetry, novels, essays, and short stories in her native Romania. Since 2000, Firan has lived in New York, first as part of Romania’s…...

Mircea Ivănescu

Mircea IvÄï¿½nescu (born March 26, 1931) lives in Sibiu in Transylvania, where he worked for many years as an editor of the journal Transilvania. A major Romanian voice, he has…...

Mariana Dan

Mariana Dan was born in Bucharest but has lived in Belgrade, Serbia, for almost thirty years. She was educated at the University of Bucharest and received her doctorate from the University of Belgrade,…...

Max Blecher

Max Blecher was born in 1909 in Botoşani, Romania. After being diagnosed with Pott's disease (tuberculous spondylitis)--at the time, as was all tuberculosis, incurable--he was forced to abandon his…...

Tristan Tzara

Born Samuel Rosenstock in 1896 in Moineşti, Romania, Tristan Tzara is mainly known as a co-founder—together with Marcel Iancu, Hugo Ball, Hans Arp and Richard Huelsenbeck—and main theoretician…...

Luminita Mihai Cioaba

Luminita Mihai Cioaba, the daughter of a Bulibasha (the king of a Gypsy nation or tribe in a Turkish term used by the Romanian Roma), is both a poet and a prose writer. Her book, The Lost Country, is a…...

Eugène Ionesco

Known mainly as one of the foremost playwrights of what critic Martin Esslin called the Theatre of the Absurd, and what he preferred to call "theatre of derision", Eugène Ionesco was born in 1909…...

Paul Celan

Paul Antschel, who wrote under the pseudonym Paul Celan, was born in Czernovitz, Bukovina, in Romania, on November 23, 1920. The son of German-speaking Jews, Celan grew up speaking several languages, including…...

Ioan Flora

Ioan Flora, author of fifteen books of poetry, among them Lecture on the Ostrich-Camel (1995), The Swedish Rabbit (1998), Medea and Her War Machines (2000), and Luncheon Under the Grass (2005), was born…...

Norman Manea

Norman Manea left Romania in 1986 and after a year in West Berlin came to the United States. Since then he has published several acclaimed books in the United States and has been translated into fifteen…...

Gabriela Adamesteanu

Gabriela Adamesteanu was born in 1942 in Targu Ocna, Romania. She has worked in literary and scientific publishing and has been the editor in chief of the magazine 22 since 1991. She is the president of…...

Mariana Marin

Mariana Marin (1956-2003) was born in Bucharest and graduated from The Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. She published the following collections of poems: Un razboi de o suta de ani (A Hundred…...

Adrian Otoiu

Formerly a poet, Adrian Otoiu made his debut in fiction in Romania's troubled early 1990s. His novel Coaja lucrurilor sau Dans—nd cu Jupuita [The Skin of the Matter or Dancing with the Flayed]…...

Virgil Duda

Virgil Duda was born in Barlad, Romania, in 1939, and graduated from the College of Juridical Sciences of Bucharest. Ten of his novels were published in Romania, among them The Listless Inquirer, Confusion,…...

Matei C ălinescu

Since 1973, when he emigrated to the US from communist Romania, Matei Călinescu has been professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, Bloomington. He was a Guggenheim fellow (1976-77) and…...

Marta Petreu

Marta Petreu's first book of poetry in 1981, Bring Verbs, won the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for a debut volume. She has issued five other collections, including Psychic Place (1991), Shameless…...

Mircea Cartarescu

Mircea Cartarescu is Romania's premier novelist and poet. His books have been translated in all major European languages. Nostalgia, from which "The Roulette Player" is excerpted, will be published…...

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