In Romania, crime fiction was initially regarded as an imported and frequently mediocre genre. It was introduced in the late…
the romanian riveter
A vicious attack in Obor Market sends shock waves across Bucharest – a young man is stabbed to death and…
Romanian literature is very rich, and rich also in translation: this bibliography is only partial, but I hope it gives…
Our Romanian Riveter has a strong focus on a particular geographic location and is designed to celebrate Timişoara’s and the…
In the autumn of 1989, I began working for BBC Radio 4 as reporter and producer on the new Eurofile…
Literary success stories can have strange beginnings. After Eugen Chirovici came to England from his native Romania, it took only…
Author of more than fifty books, including novels, collections of essays, as well as quite a few volumes of poetry,…
Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when…
Captives deserves to stand on the same shelf with Joyce’s Ulysses, Döblin’s Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,…
I have lived in Romania since just before the end of the last century and have been translating from the…
A SLICE OF BREAD Terrible cold, hunger. A persistent, nagging hunger. Like a relentless, evil spirit, which leaves you not…
‘For, on Saturday evening, after he counted at least three stars in the sky, Schmiel would pour slivovitz in a…
