Period 1978 – present Role Poet | Name Mircea Cartarescu Spouse Ioana Nicolaie | |
Born 1 June 1956 (age 67)
Bucharest, Romania ( 1956-06-01 ) Occupation Poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, professor Literary movement 80s Generation, Blue Jeans Generation, Postmodernism Education University of Bucharest (1980) Influenced by Mihai Eminescu, Nichita Stanescu, Tudor Arghezi Children Gabriel Cartarescu, Ioana Cartarescu Books Blinding, Nostalgia, Why We Love Women, The Levant, The Encyclopedia of Dragons Similar People Ioana Nicolaie, Gabriel Liiceanu, Mihai Eminescu, Andrei Plesu, Mircea Eliade |
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Mircea Cărtărescu ([mirˈt͡ʃe̯a kərtəˈresku]; born 1 June 1956) is a Romanian poet, novelist and essayist.
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Mircea Cărtărescu: Despre poezie și civism
Biography
Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994–1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.
Works
His debut as a writer was in 1978 in România Literară magazine.
Poetry
Prose
Essays
Audiobooks
Awards and honours
Presence in anthologies
Testament – Anthology of Modern Romanian Verse (1850–2015) second edition – bilingual version English/Romanian. Daniel Ionita – editor and principal translator, with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews. Minerva Publishing House. Bucharest 2015. ISBN 978-973-21-1006-5