Romanian poet, novelist and translator, Nora Iuga will benefit from the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst,
Germany ’s most important grant to a foreign writer, for one year, beginning May 15. The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is one of the most internationally renowned scholarship programs. Since it was founded in 1963, almost 1000 artists from abroad, working in the fields of visual arts, literature, music, film, and dance & performance, have been invited to live and work in Berlin. Other Romanians to have won this award include, Norman Manea, Mircea Cărtărescu, Gellu Naum, Ana Blandiana, and Ştefan Augustin Doinaş.
Ms. Iuga’s “GefährlicheLaunen” received a special merit award from the STIFTUNG BUCHKUNST (FOUNDATION FOR BOOK ART) in
Germany for “outstanding design, conception and quality.” It was selected among “the most beautiful German books in
2007” . Sold out and going into a second edition, the collection was translated into German by Ernest Wichner. It includes an afterword by Mircea Cărtărescu.
In other news, this year Polirom will publish Iuga’s novel, Hai să furăm pepeni / Let’s Steal Some Watermelons in 2009. The publisher is pleased to announce that another of her novels, Sexagenara şi tânărul (The Sextuagenarian and the Younger Man) will be translated in French (La femme de soixante ans et le jeune home, Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong: Atelier de l’Agneau), and has already been translated in Slovenian (ŠESTDESETLETNICA IN MLADENIČ,
