The festival’s very own author Andreea Scridon observes festival events Romania’s best-known female poet, Ana Blandiana, has been translated across the globe, and is a legendary figure for her political activism and creation of the world’s first memorial to victims of communism. Fiona Sampson
I d(r)ipped my pen in your pain and we(‘) d(rew/rue) endlessly weird runes tog(e/a)ther By Mario Martín Gijón Translated by Terence Dooley From Sur(rendering) (Shearsman Books, 2020) Mario Martín Gijón was born in Villanueva de la Serena, Spain, in 1979. He holds a doctorate in Hispanic Ph
Two best-selling authors compare crime writing, detectives and crime in their home countries, Scotland and Romania. Hosted by Rosie Goldsmith. Thursday 29 October 2020, 6:30pmonline | Livestream on RCI London’s Facebook page and recorded on YouTube channel from Fri 30 Oct Ian Rankin i
Romanian literature is very rich, and rich also in translation: this bibliography is only partial, but I hope it gives some idea of, and access to, these rich and fluid trends in contemporary poetry and prose. It’s a bibliography of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and prose in English t
Our Romanian Riveter has a strong focus on a particular geographic location and is designed to celebrate Timişoara’s and the surrounding region’s prodigious literary output and great festivals. But in commissioning and editing the magazine’s content, I have developed a strong sense th
Five of Romania’s strongest poetic voices, Svetlana Cârstean, Claudiu Komartin, Radu Nițescu, Andra Rotaru and Radu Vancu, take us to the cities of Bucharest and Sibiu, in southern and central Romania, for an evening of boundless verse and never-before-seen landscapes. Readings in
