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Name
  
Radu Tuculescu

Role
  
Novelist


Radu Țuculescu (born January 1, 1949) is a Romanian novelist, playwright, translator, journalist and a theatre director.

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He was born in Târgu Mureș, but graduated from the Gheorghe Dima Music Academy in Cluj.

Radu Țuculescu belongs to the so-called "1980s generation" from Romania.

Novels like Cuptorul cu microunde and Povestirile mameibătrâne were published in Austria, France and the Czech Republic. The “Grădina de vară sau Hai să-i batem” theatrical play was played for the first time in Prague, on January 29, 2008, enjoying significant success.

Family

He is the nephew of painter Ion Țuculescu, and the father of writer Răzvan Țuculescu.

Awards

  • The Book of the Year, 2009
  • Special Prize, 1994, for Transilvania în... Spania
  • Writers' Union Award, Cluj branch, 1984, 1995, 2005

    • List of works

  • Portocale și cascadori (short prose, 1978)
  • Grădina suspendată (short stories, 1981)
  • Vânzătorul de aripi (novel, 1982)
  • Ora păianjenului (novel, 1984)
  • Degetele lui Marsias (novel, 1985)
  • Portrete în mișcare (short prose, 1986)
  • Umbra penei de gâscă (novel, 1991)
  • Cuptorul cu microunde (short prose, 1995)
  • Uscătoria de partid (short prose, 1997)
  • Aventuri în anticameră (diary, 2001)
  • Liften (short prose, Zalaegerszeg-Ungaria, 1996, transl. Szlafkay Attila)
  • Ce dracu se întâmplă cu trenul acesta? (theatre, 2004)
  • Teatrul transilvan la începutul mileniului III (theatrical chronicle, 2004)
  • Povestirile mameibătrâne (novel, 2006)
  • Der Mikrowellenherd (der Roman Eines Plattenbaus in zehn Aufzugen) - Lehner - Vienna, 2008 trad. Zorin Diaconescu
  • Stalin cu sapa-nainte (novel, 2009)
  • Bravul nostru Micsa (theatrical plays, 2010)
  • Romanul erectil- publicistica (chronicles, 2010)
  • Femeile insomniacului (novel, 2012)
  • Mere-vieille racontait (novel, Gingko Edition, Paris 2012, trad. Dominique Ilea)
  • Stalin con la zappa in spalla - Aracne editrice, 2013, transl. Danilo De Salazar

    • Translations

  • America nu există ("America does not exist"), anthology of German-language prose writers from Switzerland, Oradea, 1998

    • References

    Radu Țuculescu Wikipedia
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