Author's CV
Radu Cosaşu (b. October 29, 1930,
Career.
1948-1949: Cosaşu studies for a year at the Faculty of Letters in
1952-1953: His first published work appears in the Revista elevilor / The Pupils’ Magazine. He attends courses at the Mihai Eminescu School of Literature.
1953-1956: Cosaşu works variously as an editor at Scînteia tineretului / The Spark of Youth, as a milling machine operator at the New Times Factory (Uzinele Timpuri Noi), and then again as an editor at Scînteia tineretului / The Spark.
1956-1968: Cosaşu is fired from his job after launching his theory “of the whole truth” at the 1956 Congress of Young Writers. He remains without official workplace for more than a decade.
1968-1987: Cosaşu finds employment as an editor at Cinema magazine
1993-present: Cosaşu works continuously as editor at Dilema şi Dilema veche. He has maintained permanent columns at România literară /Literary Romanian, Tribuna / The Tribune, Flacăra / The Flame, and at two newspapers, Sport and Bucharest Information.
Prizes:
1973: The “Ion Creanga” prize of the
1971: 1981; 1986: The Writers’ Union Prize
2000: The Romanian Jewish Community Prize
2001: The World Association of Jews of Romanian Origin Prize, Tel Aviv: 2001
Published Works:
1952: Servim Republica Populară Română / We Serve the Popular
1957: Opiniile unui pămîntean / Opinions of an Earth Dweller.
1960: Energii / Engergies. Bucharest: ESPLA.
1961: Lumină!, Din cronica hidrocentralei „V.I. Lenin“ / Light! Chronical of the the V. I. Lenin Hydro-electric Dam.
1962: Nopţile tovarăşilor mei / My Comrads’ Nights Bucharest: Editura Tineretului.
1964: Un surîs la 6 dimineaţa / A Smile at Six in the Morning.
1965: A înţelege sau nu / To Understand (or Not to Understand).
1965 : Vieţi paralele în toamna lui ’44 / Parallel Lives in the Fall of ’44.
1966 : Omul, dupa 33 ani, scapă /MAN ESCAPES AFTER 33 YEARS,
1968 : Maimuţele personale / Personal Monkeys.
1971: Un august pe un bloc de gheaţă / August on a Block of Ice. Bucharest: Eminescu.
2003 : Un august pe un bloc de gheaţă (ediţia a II-a) / August on a Block of Ice. Bucharest: (electronic edition) LiterNet
1972: Viaţa în filmele de cinema / Life in the Movies.
Supravieţuiri / The Survivals (a series of 6 vol.).
vol I-II,1973-1977
1973: vol.I The Survivals.
1977: vol II. The Survivals.
1980: vol III: Meseria de nuvelist / Short Fiction for Fun and Profit.
1983: vol IV: Ficţionarii / The Offictioneers
1985: vol V: Logica / Logic.
1989: vol VI: Cap limpede / Putting the Paper to Bed.
1974 : Alţi doi ani pe un bloc de gheaţă / Two More Years on a Block of Ice. Bucharest : Solteris.
1974 : Ocolul pămîntului în 100 de ştiri / Around the World in 100 Headlines.
1975: Cinci ani cu Belphegor / Five Years with the Phantom.
1978: Poveşti pentru a-mi îmblînzi iubita /Tales to Tame My Lover.
1981: O vieţuire cu Stan şi Bran / A Life with Laurel and Hardy.
1987: Sonatine / Sonatinas.
1993: Mătuşile din Tel Aviv / The Aunts from Tel Aviv.
1997: O supravieţuire cu Oscar /Surviving with Oscar,
1998: ÎnSISIFicarea la noi, pe Boteanu / InSisiphication: Home Style.
2001 Autodenunţuri şi precizări (plus cîteva note informative, o addenda şi spovedania unui comunist convins) / Self-Denunciation: Explanations, Informative Notes, Addenda and Confession of a Convinced Communist.
Supravieţuirile/ The Survivals (6 vol.):
2002 vol I: Rămăşiţe mic-burgheze / Petit Bourgeois Remains,
2003 vol II: Armata mea de cavalerie /My Cavalry. Buchurest: Fundaţiei PRO.
2004 vol III: Logica /Logic.
2005 vol IV:Pe vremea cînd nu mă gîndeam la moarte /Back When I Wasn’t Thinking of Death,
2006 vol V: Gărgăunii / Bee-Bothered.
2007 vol VI: În jungla unui bloc de gheaţă / In the Jungle of an Ice Block.
2008:
