Lucian Dan Teodorovici's Novel - Our Circus Presents - To Be Published In Hungarian, Italian and English In 2009

January 08, 2009
Lucian Dan Teodorovici's Novel - Our Circus Presents - To Be Published In Hungarian, Italian and English In 2009

Lucian Dan Teodorovici’s novel Circul nostru vă prezintă / Our Circus Presents does a powerful take on the well-known theme of the world as circus. There is no bearded lady in this singularly original production, though, no strong man or clowns with comically (or oddly) smeared faces. We fall ...

 
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Filip Florian’s Little Fingers Available in Poland

December 15, 2008
Filip Florian’s Little Fingers Available in Poland

Filip Florian’s novel Little Fingers is now available in bookstores around Poland. Published by Czarna in a translation by Szymon Wcisło, Little Fingers joins a collection that has already featured Simona Popescu and Mircea Cărtărescu. Under the able direction of Monika Sznajderman, Czarna ...

 
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Mircea Cărtărescu’s Latest Novel Meets High Praise in the Swedish Press

November 12, 2008
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Latest Novel Meets High Praise in the Swedish Press

Right Wing (Aripa dreaptă) the final part of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Orbitor trilogy was greeted with rave reviews in early November after its Stockholm launch. Swedish television called Cărtărescu’s novel “exceptional” while the principle daily newspapers describe it as “a ...

 
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Re-Writing the Map of Europe: Our Private Wars

October 29, 2008
Re-Writing the Map of Europe: Our Private Wars

Re-Writing the Map of Europe: Our Private Wars is the topic of the First International Literary Festival, which will take place in Bucharest at the Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Clubul Ţăranului, Şoseaua Kiseleff, nr.3, between October 29 and October 31, at 18:00.

 
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Romanian-Swedish Poetry Event

October 29, 2008

Elena Vlădăreanu participated with poets Adela Greceanu, Dan Sociu, Claudiu Komartin, Ida Borjel, Kajsa Sundin, Kristofer Flensmark and Malte Persson in a mutual translation project sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Stockholm. The translation project included a reading tour at the ...

 
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About this issue

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...

Translator's Choice

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 ...

Translator’s Note
Translator’s Note: a synopsis
Author: Ştefan Agopian
Translated by: Ileana Orlich

How I Learned to Read (from Tache de Catifea / The Velvet Man)

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 ...

Translator’s Note
Re: Learning to Read, from Tache de catifea / The Velvet Man
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

It happened once as never before-y, ‘cause if it couldn’t be true, it wouldn’t make a story about the time when the poplar tree made berries and the willow tree broke out in cherries, when bears began to brawl with their tails, and wolf and lamb, unfurling their sails, threw arms around each ...

Translator’s Note
On Petre Ispirescu
Exquisite Corpse

Planned events in Cultural Agenda see All Planned Events

17 December
Tardes de Cinema Romeno
As tardes de cinema romeno do ICR Lisboa continuam no dia 17 de Dezembro de 2009, às 19h00, na ...
14 December
Omaggio a Gheorghe Dinica Proiezione del film "Filantropica" (regia Nae Caranfil, 2002)
“Filantropica” è uno dei film che più rendono giustizia al ...
12 December
Årets Nobelpristagare i litteratur Herta Müller gästar Dramaten
Foto: Cato Lein 12.12.2009, Dramaten, Nybroplan, Stockholm I samband med Nobelveckan kommer ...
10 December
Romanian Festival @ Peninsula Arts - University of Plymouth
13 & 14 November 2009. Films until 18 December. Twenty of Romania's most influential and ...
10 December
Lesung und Gespräch mit Ioana Nicolaie
Donnerstag, 10. Dezember, um 19.30 Uhr Ort: Szimpla Café Gärtnerstrs.15, ...
 
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