Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cărtărescu

Bucharest 2003
Born (1956-06-01) 1 June 1956
Bucharest, Romania
Occupation Poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, professor
Period 1978 – present
Literary movement 80s Generation, Blue Jeans Generation, Postmodernism

Mircea Cărtărescu (Romanian pronunciation: [mirˈt͡ʃe̯a kərtəˈresku]; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.

Biography

Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor.[1] Between 1994–1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.

Works

His debut as a writer was in 1978 in România Literară magazine.

Poetry

Prose

Essays

Audiobooks

Awards and honours

Presence in anthologies

Testament – Anthology of Modern Romanian Verse (1850–2015) second edition – bilingual version English/Romanian. Daniel Ionita – editor and principal translator, with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews. Minerva Publishing House. Bucharest 2015. ISBN 978-973-21-1006-5

References

  1. http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/catd_flclr_ro
  2. "Mircea Cărtărescu premiat la Berlin" (in Romanian). Retrieved June 2012.
  3. "Mircea Cărtărescu a câștigat Spycher – Literaturpreis Leuk în Elveția" (in Romanian). Gândul. 2 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013.
  4. "Premiu elveţian pentru Mircea Cărtărescu" (in Romanian). Retrieved November 2014.
  5. Chad W. Post (April 14, 2014). "2014 Best Translated Book Awards: Fiction Finalists". Three Percent. Retrieved April 18, 2014.

External links

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