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Cristina-Maria Sava. Licenciada en Filología (sección español-inglés) por la
universidad “Al.I.Cuza" de Iaşi y Máster en español como lengua extranjera por la
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (2008). Ha realizado, asimismo, cursos de
especialización en Salamanca y Barcelona. Profesora colaboradora del Instituto
Cervantes de Bucarest.

Ha traducido al rumano el ensayo de José A. Marina, La inteligencia fracasada:
teoría y práctica de la estupidez (Polirom, 2006) y La vida eterna, de Fernando
Savater (Polirom, 2008), así como poemas firmados por Juan Vicente Piqueras, Jesús
Aguado, Lara Cantizani, Javier Bozalongo, Jesús H. Tundidor, Coriolano González y
Rosa Lentini, para diferentes revistas culturales. Es también coautora de una Guía
de conversación español-rumano (Polirom, 2008). Junto a Rafael Pisot, ha elaborado
un Manual de preparación para el examen D.E.L.E. (nivel intermedio), ha traducido al
español Los depravados príncipes de la Vieja Corte (Craii de Curtea-Veche) de Mateiu
I. Caragiale y prepara la traducción de Urcan el Viejo (Urcan bătrânul), de Pavel
Dan.
rpisot@hotmail.com

Español: El invierno de los varones, Los jabalíes eran mansos; El reino imaginario de Ştefan Bănulescu; Pupa Russa / Muñeca rusa, ludus et jocus; Un Bertrand Russell de respiración wagneriana; Los ciegos; Sinopsis de Cuerpos opacos, de Stelian Tănase; Traducir a Tănase: Cuerpos opacos; Una rama de olivo; Los relatos del geógrafo; Educación sentimental; Las sombras del capitán de dragones; En una tarde de viernes

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Author: Stelian Tănase
Translated by: Jean Harris

From Maestro: A Melodrama. Episode 7

Emiluţa has an unfortunate thought. She’ll throw herself off the top of the building. Why? What the fuck? Let’s say for the cause of PeaceonEarth, for the slumdogs, Europe, for the lonely. Which is to say she doesn’t have a ghost of a reason. Viva Walachia! The way things stand, if ...

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Author: Ştefan Agopian
Translated by: Ileana Orlich

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The bearded man was the owner of an apothecary shop where he worked with two apprentices. Nobody paid me any mind, so I spent all day in what was supposed to be the shop. I say this because it was a large, dark room full of odors—a mix of smells from everywhere. The room hadn’t been cleaned ...

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Author: Gabriela Adameşteanu
Translated by: Patrick Camiller

Wasted Morning - Napoleon in Bucharest

“What you’ve got here is heaven on earth,” Vica says as she drops onto the kitchen chair. “But where’s your mother?” “At work,” Gelu lazily replies, leaning sideways against the door. “She’s doing mornings this week, didn’t you know?” He is tall and thin, with unset ...

Author: Petre Ispirescu
Translated by: Jean Harris

Youth Without Age and Life Without Death

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