In Romania, crime fiction was initially regarded as an imported and frequently mediocre genre. It was introduced in the late nineteenth century, under the direct influence of Frenc
A vicious attack in Obor Market sends shock waves across Bucharest – a young man is stabbed to death and the police have no idea who might be the culprit. Soon another victim is
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 c
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 o
In the autumn of 1989, I began working for BBC Radio 4 as reporter and producer on the new Eurofile series. I visited Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Albania, Czechoslovakia
Literary success stories can have strange beginnings. After Eugen Chirovici came to England from his native Romania, it took only three years before his first novel written in Engl
Author of more than fifty books, including novels, collections of essays, as well as quite a few volumes of poetry, Andrei Codrescu is a prolific writer. He was born in Sibiu in Tr
Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when he became a student in Bucharest, where antisemitism was rife. It would e
Captives deserves to stand on the same shelf with Joyce’s Ulysses, Döblin’s Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Kafka’s The Trial and a volume of st
I have lived in Romania since just before the end of the last century and have been translating from the Romanian for about sixteen years, mostly fiction, but also non-fiction, dra
