Jan Willem Bos

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Jan Willem Bos:(1954) studeerde Roemeense taal- en letterkunde aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en Vergelijkende Literatuurwetenschap aan de University of Illinois. Hij vertaalde verschillende Roemeense auteurs in het Nederlands, onder wie Mircea Dinescu, Ana Blandiana, Mircea Cărtărescu, Norman Manea en anderen. Hij heeft ook een aantal boeken over Roemenië geschreven. In 2008 zal uitgeverij Atlas (Amsterdam) een bloemlezing Roemeense korte verhalen uitbrengen die hij heeft gekozen en vertaald. Ook zal in 2008 zijn vertaling van de novelle 'Jeugd zonder jeugd' van Mircea Eliade verschijnen, die de basis vormde voor de film 'Youth Without Youth' van Francis Ford Coppola.

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Nederlands: de winter van de mannen, de everzwijnen waren mak; Het imaginaire koninkrijk van Ştefan Bănulescu; Pupa Russa, Ludus et jocus; Gheorghe Crăciun – ster van de tachtigers; As; Sznopsis, Lichtarmaturen, Stelian Tănase; Tănase vertalen: Donkere lichamen; Gecontroleerd echo-effect; Algemene bibliografie; Een olijftak; De gebaande wegen van alledag; De verhalen van de geograaf; De schaduwen van de dragonderkapitein; Op een vrijdagmiddag

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This July, The Observer Translation Project leaves its usual format to present a special CRISIS ISSUE. Things are tough all over. Hard Times suddenly feels like the book of the moment. The global economic crisis impacts life as we know it, and viewed from Bucharest the effects reverberate in domains that include geo-politics and publishing in Romania and abroad, with the crisis at The Observer Translation Project as an instance of a universal phenomenon. read more...

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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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“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 ...

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