Mircea Cărtărescu

Mircea Cărtărescu
Bucharest 2003
Born	1 June 1956 (1956-06-01) (age 55) Bucharest, Romania
Occupation	Poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, professor
Period	1978 – present
Literary movement	80s Generation, Blue Jeans Generation, Postmodernism
Influences Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Marcel Proust, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Allen Ginsberg, Nichita Stănescu, Tudor Arghezi, T.S. Eliot, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Mihai Eminescu, Giannina Braschi, Thomas Pynchon

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

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, 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. At present (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

• 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 ("Levant"), Cartea Românească, 1990 - Writers'Union Prize, 1990, republished at 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

Prose

• Desant '83 (volum colectiv / collective tome), Cartea Românească, 1983.
• Visul ("The Dream"), Cartea Românească, 1989 - Romanian Academy's Prize, 1989; translated into French and Spanish; Latin Union's Prize nominee
  • Le rêve, Climats, 1992, ISBN 2907563556 - nominated for the Medicis prize (Best foreign book).
• Nostalgia ("Nostalgia"), full edition of "Visul", Humanitas, 1993.
  • New Direction Publishing Corporation, Translation by Julian Semilian, Introduction by Andrei Codrescu 2005, ISBN 0811215881
• Travesti, Humanitas, 1994 - Writers' Union Prize 1994; ASPRO Prize 1994; translated into French, Dutch and Spanish
• Orbitor (Blinding), vol. 1, Aripa stângă (tome 1, "The Left Wing"), Humanitas, 1996
  • Gallimard, Translation (French) by Alain Paruit, 2002, ISBN 2070422658
• Jurnal ("Journal"), Humanitas, 2001, ISBN 973-50-0095-4
  • Jurnal I, 1990-1996, Humanitas, 2005, 2nd Ed., ISBN 973-50-0985-4
• Orbitor (Blinding), vol. 2, Corpul (tome 2, "The Body"), Humanitas, 2002
• Enciclopedia zmeilor ("The Encyclopedia of Dragons"), Humanitas, 2002
• De ce iubim femeile ("Why do we love women"), Humanitas, 2004, ISBN 973-50-0869-6
• Jurnal II, 1997-2003, ("Journal II, 1997-2003"), Humanitas, 2005, ISBN 973-50-0986-2
• Orbitor (Blinding), vol. 3, Aripa dreaptă (tome 3, "The Right Wing"), Humanitas, 2007

Essays

• Visul chimeric (subteranele poeziei eminesciene) ("Chimerical Dream - The undergrounds of Eminescu's poetry"), Litera, 1991
• Postmodernismul românesc ("Romanian postmodernism"), Ph. D. thesis, Humanitas, 1999
• Pururi tânăr, înfăşurat în pixeli ("Forever young, convolved in pixels"), Humanitas, 2003
• Baroane! ("You Baron!"), Humanitas, 2005

Audiobooks

• Parfumul aspru al ficţiunii ("The rough fragrance of fiction"), Humanitas, 2003

Literary Prizes

• 1980: Romanian Writers' Union Prize
• 1989: Romanian Academy's Prize
• 1990: Romanian Writer's Unions Prize, Flacăra magazine Prize, Ateneu magazine Prize, Tomis magazine Prize, Cuvântul magazine Prize
• 1992: Le Rêve nominee for: Prix Mèdicis, Prix Union Latine, Le meilleur livre étranger
• 1994: Romanian Writer's Union Prize, ASPRO Prize, Moldavian Writers' Union Prize
• 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 ofiţer), awarded by Romanian Presidency
• 2011: Vilenica Prize

References

1. ^ http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/catd_flclr_ro

External links

• Excerpt from The Roulette Player (original title: "Ruletistul"), story from Nostalgia, by Mircea Cărtărescu, at WordsWithoutBorders.org [1]
• Mircea Cărtărescu's page at Humanitas publishing house [2]
• A review of Nostalgia by Joshua Cohen at New Haven Review [3]
• Cartarescu meets his readers at the International Book Fair of Turin, Italy

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Name	Cartarescu, Mircea
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Date of birth	1 June 1956
Place of birth	Bucharest, Romania
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