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Playwright Saviana Stănescu Scores Another Great Success in Stockholm

January 21, 2009

Acclaimed by the Swedish dailies, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter, New York’s La Mama Theater Company performed Saviana Stănescu’s Waxing West to full houses in Stockholm on January 16 and 17. Critic Lars Ring of Svenska Dagbladet praises both the text and the New York troupe: “The ...

Cristina Domestica and the Soul Hunters by Petru Cimpoeşu in Czech

January 17, 2009

After the knock out success of Simon Liftnicul / Simon the Liftite, which received the 2007 Magnesia Litera Book of the Year award, the Czech Republic’s most important literary prize, Petru Cimpoeşu returns with a new novel, Christina Domestica şi vânătorii de suflete / Cristina Domestica ...

Laura T. Ilea published by L'Harmattan

January 17, 2009

L'Harmattan announces the publication of Est: nouvelles by Laura T. Ilea translated by Nicolas Cavaillès with a preface by Marcel Moreau. The action in these five narratives unfolds in five different spots on the planet, from an island on the other side of the Atlantic to a country in Eastern ...

Praise for Filip Florian from Perlentaucher.de

January 16, 2009

In a small town somewhere in the Carpathians a mass grave is discovered in the ruins of a Roman fortress. As the locals suspect it to be a heritage of the criminal Ceausescu regime and they do not trust the current Bucharest government either, they enlist the help of Argentinean anthropologists who ...

OTP Introduces CulturaRomena.it

January 12, 2009

The Observer Translation Project introduces a new Italian site, www.CulturaRomena.it . The site is the result of a collaboration between Dacia Association from Livorno and the Italo-Romanian Cultural Center with the support of Governmental Strategies Agency in Bucharest. The editorial board ...

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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...

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

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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