Author's CV
Filip Florian was born in Bucharest, on May 16, 1968. From
1990 through 1999, he was first a columnist at the Cuvîntul
weekly and a correspondent for Radio Free Europe andDeutsche Welle radio. His first novel, Degete mici / Little
Fingers (Polirom 2005; second edition, 2007), was awarded the
best debut performance prize by România literară / Literary
Romania and the Anonimul Foundation, the Excellence prize for
literary debut by UNPR, and the best debut
performance award for fiction by the Romanian Writers’ Union.
Following translation into Hungarian (Kisujjak. Budapest:Magvető Könyvkiadó. 2008),
German (Kleine Finger. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag.
2008) and Polish (Małe palce. Sękowa:
Wydawnictwo Czarne), Degete mici / Little Fingers is
forthcoming in the USA (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Spain
(Acantilado), Italy (Fazi Editore), Slovakia (Kalligram) and Slovenia
(Didakta).
Filip Florian and his brother wrote the novel “Băiuţeii / Băiuţ
Alley Lads” (Iaşi: Polirom. 2006; second edition Iaşi:
Polirom. 2007), recently published in Poland (Starszy brat,
młodszy brat. Sękowa: Wydawnictwo Czarne.
2009). The novel is under translation in Spain (Acantilado)
and Bulgaria (Plural Plus).
His third novel, Zilele regelui / Days of the King (Iaşi:
Polirom. 2008), was awarded the Manuscriptum prize of the Museum of
Romanian Literature and has already been translated into Hungarian (A
király napjai. Budapest: Magvető
Könyvkiadó. 2008).
Filip Florian was writer in residence at the Berlin Literarisches
Colloquium, from April through May 2006, and at ULNÖ Krems in
February 2008. He attended the European Borderlands Festival held in
June 2007, the Leipzig Kleine Sprachen - große Literaturen festivalin March 2007, the European First Novel Festival
(Budapest, April 2008), the Writers’ and Literary Translators’
International Congress (WALTIC) (Stockholm, June 2008), the Le parole
dello Schermo festival (Bologna, October 2008) and the book fairs
held in Frankfurt, Turin, Leipzig, Istanbul, Warsaw and Budapest. He
held public readings in Berlin, Vienna, Bonn, Frankfurt, Hamburg,
Leipzig, Basel, Istanbul, Bratislava, Venice, Budapest and Krems.
