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Mircea Cărtărescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a kərtəˈresku]; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.[1]

Mircea Cărtărescu
Cărtărescu at Göteborg Book Fair, 2019
Born	(1956-06-01) 1 June 1956 (age 66) Bucharest, Romania
Occupation	Novelist, poet, short-story writer, essayist, journalist, university professor
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Literary movement	80s Generation, Blue Jeans Generation, Postmodernism
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Ioana Nicolaie [ro]
Academic work
Institutions	University of Bucharest

Biography

Born in Bucharest in 1956, he attended Cantemir Vodă National College during the early 1970s. During his school years, he was a member of literary groups led by Nicolae Manolescu and Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu. At that time, along with many teenagers of his generation, Cărtărescu was tremendously influenced by the legacy of the 1960s American counterculture, including artists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and The Doors. He commenced writing poetry in 1978.

Later, he studied at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language and Literature. He graduated in 1980 with a thesis that later became his book on poetry, more specifically The Chimaeric Dream. That same year, some of his works were published by Cartea Românească.

Between 1980 and 1989, Cărtărescu worked as a Romanian language teacher, then worked at the Writers' Union of Romania and as an editor at Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991, he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he was an associate professor there, where he still lectures to this date.[2] Between 1994 and 1995, he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and currently holds the same position at the University of Stuttgart. In 2012, he received the International Literature Award for his novel The Body.

Cărtărescu is married to the Romanian poet Ioana Nicolaie [ro], with whom he has a son.[3] His works have been translated into most European languages. He is a full professor at the University of Bucharest within the Department of Literary Studies.[4]

Work

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

Poetry

• Faruri, vitrine, fotografii..., ("Headlights, shop windows, photographs...") Cartea Românească, 1980 – Writers Union Prize, 1980
• Poeme de amor ("Love Poems"), Cartea Românească, 1982
• Totul ("Everything"), Cartea Românească, 1984
• Levantul (The Levant), Cartea Românească, 1990 – Writers Union Prize, 1990, republished by Humanitas in 1998
• Dragostea ("Love"), Humanitas, 1994
• 50 de sonete de Mircea Cărtărescu cu cincizeci de desene de Tudor Jebeleanu ("50 Sonnets by Mircea Cărtărescu With Fifty Drawings by Tudor Jebeleanu"), Brumar 2003
• Nimic, Poeme (1988-1992) ("Nothing, Poems, 1988-1992"), Humanitas, 2010
• Nu striga niciodată ajutor ("Never Call For Help"), Humanitas, 2020

Prose

• Desant '83 (Cartea Românească, 1983)
• Visul (Cartea Românească, 1989). The Dream
• Nostalgia (Humanitas, 1993; full edition of Visul). Trans. Julian Semilian (New Directions, 2005; ISBN 0-8112-1588-1), with introduction by Andrei Codrescu
• Travesti (Humanitas, 1994)
• Orbitor, vol. 1, Aripa stângă (Humanitas, 1996). Blinding, Book One: The Left Wing, trans. Sean Cotter (Archipelago Books, 2013)
• Jurnal (Humanitas, 2001). 2nd ed.: Jurnal I, 1990–1996 (Humanitas, 2005, ISBN 973-50-0985-4)
• Orbitor, vol. 2, Corpul (Humanitas, 2002). Blinding, Book Two: The Body
• Enciclopedia zmeilor (Humanitas, 2002). The Encyclopedia of Dragons
• De ce iubim femeile (Humanitas, 2004). Why We Love Women, trans. Alistair Ian Blyth (University of Plymouth Press, 2011; ISBN 1841022063)
• Jurnal II, 1997–2003 (Humanitas, 2005). Diary II, 1997–2003
• Orbitor, vol. 3, Aripa dreaptă (Humanitas, 2007). Blinding, Book Three: The Right Wing
• Frumoasele străine (Humanitas, 2010). Beautiful Strangers
• Zen, Jurnal 2004-2010 (Humanitas, 2011). Zen, Diary 2004-2010
• Solenoid (Humanitas, 2015). Trans. Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum, 2022)
• Un om care scrie, Jurnal 2011-2017 (Humanitas, 2018). A Man Who Writes, Diary 2011-2017
• Melancolie (Humanitas, 2019). Melancholy

Essays

• Visul chimeric (subteranele poeziei eminesciene) ("Chimerical Dream – The Underground of Eminescu's Poetry"), Litera, 1991
• Postmodernismul românesc ("Romanian Postmodernism"), Ph.D. thesis, Humanitas, 1999
• Pururi tânăr, înfășurat în pixeli ("Forever Young, Wrapped in Pixels"), Humanitas, 2003
• Baroane! ("You Baron!"), Humanitas, 2005
• Ochiul căprui al dragostei noastre ("Our Love's Hazel Eye"), Humanitas, 2012
• Peisaj după isterie ("Landscape, After Histrionics"), Humanitas, 2017
• Creionul de tâmplărie ("A Carpenter's Pencil"), Humanitas, 2020

Audiobooks

• Parfumul aspru al ficțiunii ("The Rough Fragrance of Fiction"), Humanitas, 2003

Anthologies

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

Awards and honours

• 1980: Romanian Writers' Union Prize
• 1989: Romanian Academy's Prize, for Visul
• 1990: Romanian Writer's Unions Prize, Flacăra magazine Prize, Ateneu magazine Prize, Tomis magazine Prize, Cuvântul magazine Prize
• 1992: Le Rêve nominee for: Prix Médicis, Prix Union Latine, Le meilleur livre étranger
• 1994: Romanian Writer's Union Prize, ASPRO Prize, Moldavian Writers' Union Prize, for Travesti
• 1996: ASPRO Prize, Flacăra magazine Prize, Ateneu magazine Prize, Tomis magazine Prize, Cuvântul magazine Prize
• 1997: Flacăra magazine Prize, Ateneu magazine Prize, Tomis magazine Prize, Cuvântul magazine Prize
• 1999: Orbitor's French translation nominee for Prix Union Latine
• 2000: Romanian Writers Association Prize
• 2002: ASPRO Prize, AER Prize
• 2006: Grand Officer of the Cultural Merit Order (Ordinul "Meritul cultural" în grad de mare ofițer), awarded by Romanian Presidency
• 2011: Vilenica Prize
• 2012: International literatur prize "Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2012", Berlin[5]
• 2013: Spycher – Literary Prize Leuk, Switzerland[6]
• 2013: Grand Prix of the Novi Sad International Poetry Festival[7]
• 2014: Best Translated Book Award, shortlisted for Blinding, translated from the Romanian into English by Sean Cotter[8]
• 2014: Premio Euskadi de Plata to the Best Book of 2014 for Las Bellas Extranjeras (Frumoasele străine), translated from the Romanian into Spanish by Marian Ochoa de Eribe (Editorial Impedimenta)
• 2015: Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding for Blinding[9]
• 2015: Austrian State Prize for European Literature[10]
• 2016: Premio Gregor von Rezzori for Blinding[11]
• 2018: Thomas Mann Prize[12]
• 2018: Prix Formentor[13]
• 2022: FIL Award[14]

References

External links

• Excerpt from The Roulette Player (original title: "Ruletistul"), story from Nostalgia, by Mircea Cărtărescu, at WordsWithoutBorders.org
• Mircea Cărtărescu's page at Humanitas publishing house
• Mircea Cărtărescu's page at Zsolnay/Hanser Verlage publishing house
• A review of Nostalgia by Joshua Cohen at New Haven Review New Haven Review
• Cartarescu meets his readers at the International Book Fair of Turin, Italy

На других языках

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[de] Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cărtărescu, Aussprache .mw-parser-output .IPA a{text-decoration:none}ˈmirt͡ʃe̯a kərtəˈresku, (* 1. Juni 1956 in Bukarest) ist ein rumänischer Schriftsteller.

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- [en] Mircea Cărtărescu

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[es] Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cărtărescu (Bucarest, 1 de junio de 1956) es un poeta, prosista y crítico literario rumano. Está casado con la escritora rumana Ioana Nicolaie. Es considerado por la crítica literaria el más importante poeta rumano contemporáneo. Es conferenciante universitario, doctor en la Cátedra de Literatura Rumana de la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Bucarest.

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[fr] Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cărtărescu, né le 1er juin 1956 à Bucarest, est un écrivain et poète roumain.

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[ru] Кэртэреску, Мирча

Мирча Кэртэреску (рум. Mircea Cărtărescu, 1 июня 1956, Бухарест) — румынский поэт, прозаик, эссеист.

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